Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Troubled Tigers Leaders of Pacific Rim countries aren't talking of economic miracles at their annual meeting. This time, in the wake of an IMF bailout, it's down to crisis management.
Troubled Tigers Leaders of Pacific Rim countries aren't talking of economic miracles at their annual meeting. This time, in the wake of an IMF bailout, it's down to crisis management.
Armed with this knowledge, President Clinton stepped up his attack on Iraq?s refusal to grant inspectors access to 68 palaces, presidential compounds and VIP residences. "Some of them actually encompass more land than Washington, D.C., does," Clinton said at the Asia-Pacific summit in Vancouver.
VANCOUVER: The symbolism was almost too heavy: Dressed in blue denim shirts and brown leather aviator jackets like the Flying Tigers of a previous era, the leaders of Pacific Rim countries today hammered out the details of an IMF-led bailout plan for the economies of the ailing Asian Tigers...
It wasn't supposed to be this way. On the eve of the Pacific century, Asia's two most powerful economies were supposed to be pumping out wealth for the rest of the world--not threatening to suck it dry. But banks in Japan and South Korea now groan with...