Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...limping tigers like Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore need healthy Japanese banks to lend their businesses money, and free-spending Japanese consumers to buy their exports. Japan, in its current state, has neither. The once-emulated economic juggernaut has been reduced to the humiliating status of an export-dumping nation, irking the U.S. profoundly in the process and affording no help whatsoever to its shell-shocked Asian neighbors...
...course, these are not problems necessarily unique to Harvard; many we share with our colleagues at other large universities. Outside observers worry that the changing priorities of research universities as a whole are jeopardizing the quality of the nation's higher education system. But that is not the way things have to be. The University has led the way before, most recently with President Rudenstine leading the charge to reaffirm diversity in higher education. But other times it has dropped the ball, reacting late to nationwide reforms in financial aid programs and failing to forge real interdisciplinary links (where have...
Jackson also denounced the "double standard" the U.S. invokes when dealing with humanitarian disasters in Europe and Africa--intervening in Western conflicts, but not those on other continents. He compared the refugee crisis in Sierra Leone, an African nation which has been embroiled in a civil war for several years, to the one in Kosovo...
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Satcher also laid the groundwork for an early detection system for food-borne illnesses and decreased the nation's response time for containing infectious diseases...