Word: vietnamization
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...spikes in oil and food prices. That was sharply higher than the 2.5% rate in May 2007 - and that's just the regional average. In India, inflation jumped to an 11.6% annual rate in June, according to the latest government figures, the highest in 13 years. In Vietnam, one of Asia's fastest-growing economies, inflation has reached as high as 27% in the past few months...
...domestic origin, and it's not as if the government has many instruments in its hands to deal with it," says Marut Sengupta, head of policy at the Confederation of Indian Industry. That problem has left some officials uncertain how to proceed, especially in countries such as Vietnam, which joined the World Trade Organization last year and has been opening up its economy to market forces. Vietnam suffers from the highest inflation in Asia; the country's Prime Minister, Nguyen Tan Dung, recently acknowledged during an interview with TIME that "promptly responding to adverse impacts of the global economy...
This is a different kind of cultural language from Vietnam movies, where the Doors or Jimi Hendrix would sonically represent the dark terror of war. Here, it's all ironic contrast. After the accidental shooting of a civilian, Corporal Josh Ray Person (James Ransone) cracks, "It's all that damn gangsta rap and those video games that are desensitizing today's youth to violence...
...local papers but found his true home as an outspoken editorialist on WRAL, a Raleigh-Durham radio and television station. For more than 20 years, long before Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage, Helms prospered as a media scourge of liberal America. He railed against desegregation, opposition to the Vietnam War, communism, "socialized medicine" and limitations on prayer in schools...
...during the culture wars of the late '60s and early '70s that the flag lapel pin truly took off and became the simultaneously uniting and divisive symbol that it is today. Republican candidates in the 1970 congressional race wore them as a symbol of patriotic solidarity against anti-Vietnam protesters like Abbie Hoffman - who donned a shirt made of the flag - or others who stitched the flag onto the seat of their pants. But it was Richard Nixon who brought the pin to national attention. According to Stephen E. Ambrose's biography Nixon, the President got the idea for sporting...