Word: vietnamization
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...grew long hair and a beard and began doing different kinds of material - about drugs and Vietnam and America's uptight attitude toward language and sex. Fans of the old George Carlin weren't ready for it. Carlin got thrown out of Las Vegas twice for material that today would seem tame (one offending routine was about his own "skinny ass"). At the Playboy Club in Lake Geneva, Wis., he so riled up a conservative crowd with his jokes about Vietnam that he nearly caused an audience riot. Even Johnny Carson banned him as a Tonight Show guest...
...major agricultural producer, Vietnam is aware of the government subsidies paid to European and American farmers and how this might contribute to food price inflation. Is this one of the things you'll be talking about in Washington...
When Nguyen Tan Dung became Prime Minister of Vietnam two years ago, the former central bank governor was widely viewed as a progressive who would continue to drive the communist country's remarkable transition from moribund planned economy to a booming capitalist one. But this year, Vietnam's outlook has dimmed. While GDP growth remains strong at more than 7%, the inflation rate has rocketed to 25%, there have been a large number of outbreaks of labor unrest and the stock market has plunged by nearly two-thirds since January, making it the worst-performing in the world...
There are many factors leading to the current difficult economic situation. Due to the high degree of openness of our economy, Vietnam is greatly affected by global inflation. Vietnam has been a member of the World Trade Organization for only a little more than a year, and so promptly responding to adverse impacts of the global economy is a relatively new matter for us. The government values and is willing to learn from the experiences of other countries and from experts in this area...
...going to raise that issue. Vietnam is the world's second-largest rice exporter. This year we have already exported 2.2 million tons of rice, up by 20% compared with the same period last year. This morning I had a conversation over the phone with Thailand's Prime Minister [Thailand is the world's largest rice exporter] and we agreed to further promote rice exports to international markets to help stabilize food prices...