Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longtime U.S. Senator A. Willis Robertson, Pat grew up in Lexington, Va., and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from hometown Washington and Lee University. After a hitch as a Marine combat officer in Korea, he graduated from the Yale Law School, flunked the New York bar exam and was a partner in a small business. Then at age 26 he had a conversion experience ("At my desk in my office, I leaned back in my chair and burst out laughing . . . I had passed from death into life") and entered the Biblical Seminary in New York City...
Bachrach outlined a liberal foreign policy agenda of improved relations with the Nicaraguan government, sanctions against South Africa, and pressure for democratic reform on authoritative regimes in Chile, the Phillippines, and South Korea...
...culture. On the other hand, the report itself conspicuously fails to include the voices and experiences of East Asian women. In playing up the First versus Thirld World polarity, the collection of essays crucially neglects to account for women in non-Western industrialized societies such as Japan, Taiwan, and Korea whose conditions mediate, in some regards, the two extremes. Another important and fertile area of women's studies left untouched is the effect of Maoism upon Confucianism's patriarchal repression of women...
...discounting the South Koreans. In the past few years, several Korean companies, including Samsung, Goldstar and Daewoo, have successfully invaded America with television sets, videocassette recorders and even personal computers. Because wages are generally lower in South Korea than they are in either the U.S. or Japan, Korean products often sell for 25% less than their competition's. By offering attractive items at very low prices, the South Koreans may become the new Japanese. Says one Tokyo businessman: "Sometimes we see our spitting image in the Koreans, and we're downright afraid...
...popularity of the Korean goods has helped swell the U.S. trade deficit, which reached a record $148.5 billion in 1985, according to new figures released last week by the Commerce Department. Last year's deficit with South Korea amounted to $4.8 billion...