Word: vietnamize
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...praising Kerry for his intelligence, his thoughtful manner and the forward-thinking positions he has taken on issues from foreign policy to the environment. They say he can fill the party's gaping need for someone who can speak cogently on national security. Kerry's credential as a decorated Vietnam veteran not only makes a useful contrast to President Bush but also adds some ballast to the surefire applause line he drops into every speech about Iraq: "The United States should never go to war because we want to; the United States should go to war because we have...
...other words, if everything possible goes wrong for housing, homeowners should have plenty to compensate them in terms of job security and income hikes. Either that, or things will have gone so wrong - like if Iraq turns into some grisly combination of 9/11 and Vietnam - that the resale price of homes will be the least of our worries...
...Authorities hailed it as Vietnam's biggest-ever tax-fraud bust?proof, they claim, that the country is serious about tackling fraud and corruption. But another factor has tongues wagging both in Vietnam's boardrooms and at its noodle-soup stands. Thieu and his older brother Nguyen Trong Thang were known not just for their wealth?their private company boasted estimated revenue of $60 million in 2002?but for who they are. Born in Vietnam but raised in France, the brothers are Viet Kieu, as people who fled the country following the fall of Saigon in 1975 are known. Once...
...Society: Vietnam's Returnees
...Thieu's family insists that both are innocent. Meanwhile, some sympathizers wonder if Dong Nam is being targeted not because it was unusually corrupt but because its owners lost the support of patrons within the government who had previously looked away. After all, tax evasion is so pervasive in Vietnam, says Thai, that he's been called a "sucker" for bothering to pay them. In Thieu's neighborhood, people don't much care whether he's guilty or not. As one gleeful local puts it: "Everyone hopes police will seize all their property." So much for loving thy neighbor...