Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The IMF didn't put itself at the center of this storm. It was placed there first by the countries requesting help, then by the other Pacific Rim nations. For different reasons, both lenders and receivers wanted a middleman to give them cover. For all the embarrassment that attaches to...
Agreement on the IMF's central role was the chief accomplishment of last week's Vancouver summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-Operation forum. The U.S. had been trying to head off some efforts by Asian countries to set up a separate, regional body to handle the bailouts. Such...
It's not just the poor who flinch when they hear the letters IMF. The arrival of the IMF can also mean pain for economic elites, who are expected to dismantle the business culture that made them rich even while it dragged their nations into crisis. In the Asian Pacific...
And the new paradigm? Diana, Princess of Wales. Last week's jilted bride, Nicole Contos, followed the essential outlines of Diana's example. The script: 1)The man (Prince Charles, or Tasos Michael) is a rotten, unfeeling, abusive cad, and inflicts a humiliation upon a naive and innocently hopeful young...
It is misguided to say there is no link between global warming and recent anomalous El Nino behavior. El Nino is certainly a natural phenomenon, but it occurs because there is a need to move heat out of the tropical Pacific Ocean, where it would otherwise build up. Because global...