Word: nationalisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reform" is under way in Japan--tiny revolutions in entrepreneurial companies that may forge a Japan built for the Internet age. As some Japanese like to observe, they spent 40 years building the world's best industrial economy. What you're seeing, they insist, is the agony of a nation trying to enter the world's fast-growing information-age economy...
...recessions of the 1970s and early '80s. And the revolution was accomplished with the help of lavish federal deficits (which are only now being paid down), tax cuts and extensive, bottom-up restructuring that transformed dinosaurs like Ford into world-class competitors. Ever since the Meiji era, when the nation ended centuries of isolation, Japan has proved expert at adopting American ideas to its own revolutionary needs. In the eyes of investors, at least, that would suggest that the Nikkei may indeed be the next...
...course, debating how to use the surplus could be like haggling over the division of water in a mirage. Yet even if the estimates are a bit optimistic, the nation will still be faced with the problem of having too much money. "If we use the surplus wisely, we could cement our wealth for another couple of decades," says Sinai, who is worried that big tax cuts now would be premature. "The task for our society," he adds, "is to make sure we don't blow...
...your article "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" [NATION, July 12], describing how Gore is trying to distance himself from President Clinton: If I were Gore, the last place I would want to be is in a marriage with Clinton--unless, of course, someday I wanted to run for Senator from a state where I had never lived. MEL MAURER Westlake, Ohio...
...personality among all those who have shaped contemporary history, I would cite General Charles de Gaulle. He was the incarnation of honor and courage. I had the privilege of knowing him and of working at his side. I learned from him that intimate, almost mystical, alliance between a nation and its leader. The relationship between De Gaulle and France was a personal and unique bond. During World War II, he was the symbol of the Resistance and later the spirit of reform. He restored political and economic stability. Never give up--have the courage to say no--embrace a collective...