Word: states
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just Japan that has a lot at stake. Still-limping tigers like Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore need healthy Japanese banks to lend their businesses money, and free-spending Japanese consumers to buy their exports. Japan, in its current state, has neither. The once-emulated economic juggernaut has been reduced to the humiliating status of an export-dumping nation, irking the U.S. profoundly in the process and affording no help whatsoever to its shell-shocked Asian neighbors...
...money? Aren't the tax breaks and public works monies trickling down and being spent in stores? No -? it?s getting stuffed under those same mattresses. "Any recovery has to start with consumers," says Baumohl, "and the Japanese, always a culture that emphasized saving, are truly in a desperate state. They need an incentive to start spending again...
...novel depicts a dystopian future in which the United States has been replaced by a theocratic regime called the Republic of Gilead. Envisioned as a Puritan totalitarian state, secret police enforce strict religious observance in Gilead...
...Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Bay Colony as the sort of founding moment of Euro-American culture," says Rebecca B. Faery, lecturer on history and literature, who teaches the book in her Expository Writing class. "This is the cradle of the theocracy, of the Puritan incorporation of church and state...
...keeping with the family traditions of law and politics, Simpson entered the Wyoming State Legislature in 1964--he would go on to serve as majority whip, majority floor leader and speaker pro-tempore in the Wyoming House...