Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What's the payoff of our region? What can we learn there that is more powerful than what we can learn somewhere else? If so [foundations] should allocate resources. If not, then what are you doing?" Bates says...
Hall says that almost all area studies scholars are producing research that is applicable cross-culturally, despite grounding in a particular region...
...sanctions to the trade embargo that has crippled Iraq's economy since the country invaded Kuwait in 1990. If Saddam continued to resist, the White House signaled, it was more than ready to use military force. The Pentagon has 18,500 soldiers, 17 ships and 200 warplanes in the region poised to launch a retaliatory strike if the American inspectors in Baghdad are endangered...
Meanwhile, economists are slashing their projections for the region. The Goldman Sachs investment firm predicts Malaysia's growth in 1998 will slow to 4%. Investment giant Morgan Stanley foresees that growth in the beleaguered Thai economy, which from 1993 to '96 averaged 8.2% annually, will shrink 1.5% next year...
...American museum expansion. One is in Los Angeles and opens officially in December--though small flotillas of previewing VIPS have been trawling through it for the past few months. The other, already open, is under American management but is set in Bilbao, in the Basque region of northern Spain. Neither is likely to have any architectural rivals in what is left of the 20th century, or for a good slice of the early 21st...