Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years," says Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the upcoming The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton. "Every time something happens, people say to me, 'It's a good thing you came in when you did.' But publishing is always in turmoil...
Woschitz had dealt with the same bank for years and stuck by it during the turmoil that followed its absorption into a larger institution. But in 1992, his bank was taken over again, this time by National City Corp., based in Cleveland. After that, the dream customer started having bank nightmares...
...would hesitate to give a straight yes to that. After what has happened in East Asia, China may decide that in the midst of all this turmoil, they should do this in gradual stages and not take excessive risk. The original plans must have included raising capital in the Hong Kong stock exchange--red chips. That is not feasible for some time. If capital is not forthcoming, new management will also be absent, because Hong Kong was going to be the conduit of capital and management expertise. He cannot proceed at the same pace...
...with the program! That was the message U.S. policymakers delivered to Indonesia and Japan last week as Washington struggled to keep the economic turmoil in Asia from spiraling out of control. In a week of public and private arm twisting, Bill Clinton dispatched former Vice President Walter Mondale to riot-plagued Indonesia, where President Suharto is trying to backpedal from the terms of a $43 billion International Monetary Fund bailout. Among the 70-year-old Mondale's tasks will be to persuade the 76-year-old Suharto to make good on promises to break up monopolies and cartels...
Pentagon planners are quietly reviewing their options for how to extricate the 11,000 Americans living in Indonesia if turmoil in the South Pacific archipelago continues to escalate. Fiscal problems have led to a $43 billion International Monetary Fund bailout, but the resulting austerity measures have sent the cost of basic necessities in the world's fourth most populous country soaring, and last week rioting broke out on several islands. The anger comes from 90% of the 202 million Indonesians who are Muslims and is largely directed against the nation's ethnic Chinese, who account for only...