Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Microsoft, Compaq, Cisco Systems and Oracle have plenty more cyber stuff on their drawing boards. What's in question is how much of it they will sell, how soon and at what price. One obvious problem is Asia. Tech companies were doing a lot of business there before the region's economies imploded. Intel, for example, has been getting 28% of its annual revenue there and will surely feel a sting from the slowdown...
...legitimate claim ? Jesus was born in Bethlehem (now under Palestinian Authority control) but spent most of his life in Nazareth (which, despite being predominantly Arab, is part of Israel proper). The real issue as they jockey for position and investment is where the 2 million Christian pilgrims to the region each year ? with 5 million expected in the millennial year ? spend their money...
...that has hammered and humiliated the wildfire economies of Asia. As South Korea slid close toward insolvency last week, the Japanese were looking toward their leaders, and foreign investors were looking to Japan for signals that the Pacific Rim's chief Asian power could buffer the quakes rattling the region's interlocking systems...
...worst weeks yet in the region's financial turmoil, fears that the IMF's largest-ever handout would not salvage matters dragged down every Asian market and currency, especially Seoul's. That situation could reverberate ruinously in Japan. Not only is Korea in hock to Japan for at least $24 billion, but a further deterioration of the Korean won--which has lost a staggering 50% of its value against the U.S. dollar this year--would make it harder for Japanese products to compete with Korean exports, from cars to steel to electronics. That in turn would plunge Japan deeper into...
...main fire wall against a global financial crisis is still Japan. It has huge foreign-currency reserves and is the principal source of investment capital in the region. Seoul is looking desperately to Tokyo to roll over its credit. But Japanese banks, burdened with a quarter-trillion dollars of bad domestic debt, cannot easily risk more money in the South Korean sinkhole. Japan is also the origin of the very economic model that is causing the crisis. No one really knows, but many moneymen fear that Japan's own financial system could be as dangerously debt-ridden as South Korea...