Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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To stay on the fast track, U.S. carmakers must not only win back former customers at home but also enter the much faster-growing markets abroad, particularly in Latin America and Asia. Markets such as China could explode from 5 million vehicles to 40 million in another decade. Ford's...
More than two decades ago, in 1971, a hubbub of scientific inquiry surrounded a rare strain of yew tree in the Pacific Northwest.
At the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Seattle, Bill Clinton welcomed Asian heads of state in down-home style. The plaid-shirted president was eager to give a casual, friendly air to this summit--an event which, nevertheless, crackled with symbolism for the future. While most of the attendees...
The nativist sentiment that foreigners are somehow inferior to the American- born may be the nation's oldest and most persistent bias. (Curiously, it was not until 1850 that the U.S. Census took note of where Americans were born.) Apart from slaves, Asians (principally the Chinese) suffered most from this...
At UCLA, Thongthiraj is helping change that view. She is director of the Asian Pacific Coalition, an umbrella group of 19 ethnic organizations on campus. In promoting cultural awareness and aiding new immigrants, especially hard-luck cases from Indochina, the coalition encourages them to articulate a more assertive political voice...