Word: regionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad thinks he has. He says that Soros was upset by the decision of the Association of South East Asian Nations to admit Burma to their group ? Burma being one of the less democratic countries in the region ? and decided to drive their currency values down. ASEAN currencies have been going into tailspin against the dollar of late; Thailand, for one, had to be bailed out by the IMF to the tune of $16.7 billion. Still smarting, the Asian Tigers are screaming for Soros' head on a plate...
...three area codes and its information systems don't "talk" to one another. There's still some work to be done. Earlier this year, a request for Squaw Valley, the famous ski resort in California where the 1960 Winter Olympics were held, produced incorrect numbers from all over the region. One operator finally got close, providing a number for the Olympic Village--something that has not existed for 30 years...
...About 40% of shark species lay eggs; the rest bear live young, and some of these carry their young just as mammals do, with an umbilical cord connecting the fetus to the uterus.) For the next 12 months or so, the baby hammerheads are an integral part of the region's ecosystem...
Just what is inappropriate is a messy issue, as citizens of Loudoun County, Va., a conservative enclave northwest of Washington, can attest. Last month, after six public hearings and over the objections of library staff, the county library board adopted the region's most restrictive Internet-access policy. Henceforth, the library will arm its computers with filters to censor obscene sites--the definition of obscenity, of course, being largely up to whichever filter Loudoun County ends up deciding to buy. Adults who want to cruise the Net sans filter will have to ask the librarian to call off the watchdogs...
...channeled about $100 billion into mainland China, about 60 percent of all the capital injected into the country. The economic links with the mainland represent the most significant factor to shape the short-term future of the territory, which has acquired the new status of China's Special Administrative Region in the historic event of the handover on midnight of June 30. Indeed, it was in the aftermath of the embargo on China that the present economic might was being born. In lack of trading opportunities, industrialists from the mainland realized that Hong Kong's only asset was represented...