Word: taipei
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people come customs: while new immigrants from Taiwan and Vietnam and India -- some of the so-called Asian Calvinists -- import all-American values of hard work and family closeness and entrepreneurial energy to America, America is sending its values of upward mobility and individualism and melting-pot hopefulness to Taipei and Saigon and Bombay...
...Avenue is too expensive," Mrs. Gao complains after a shopping tour. "And when we find something suitable, it's made in Taiwan." But as the movie ripens from Green Card situation comedy into mellow drama, it finds human wrinkles in its stock figures. There's no gay baiting or Taipei typecasting. The old folks possess hidden reserves of sagacity; the young folks can bend to meet them before saying a last, wistful goodbye...
...thirds of all movie tickets sold, twice the share a decade ago. The standard explanation has been the economics of special effects: only Hollywood can produce the big, dumb, violent blockbusters that every earthling understands. But these days, movies like Sommersby and Groundhog Day do well in places like Taipei and Hamburg...
...past 10 months, however, two 747 cargo planes, model 200, have gone down in alarmingly similar circumstances. A China Airlines plane lost both its starboard engines shortly after takeoff from Taipei last December. Over Amsterdam last week, the engines on the El Al cargo flight's right wing also dropped...
While relations with one Asian nation faltered, Yeltsin was expanding ties with an old nemesis in the region -- Taiwan. In deference to Beijing, the former Soviet government had refused any contact with Taipei. But the risk of Beijing's wrath did not stop Russia and Taipei from announcing plans to establish unofficial relations, the same level of ties Taiwan maintains with many other countries. Yeltsin hopes for the result that he failed to achieve with Japan: increased investment in Russia. (See related story on page...