Word: antiforeign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...free-market policy triggered an antiforeign backlash that could slow the flow of sorely needed money into the country. Overseas firms spent more than $1 billion to build new factories and facilities in India last year. While that was a big increase from $620 million the previous year, it remained meager compared with the $34 billion that China attracted in direct foreign investments...
...movement that claimed responsibility for the hijacking, avenged its "martyrs" by murdering four Roman Catholic priests -- three French and one Belgian -- in the Algerian city of Tizi-Ouzou. The deaths brought to 76 the number of foreigners killed in Algeria, including 26 French nationals, since the G.I.A. began its antiforeign assassination spree in September...
...illustrate the depth of the problem is a poll this month by the Allensbach Institute showing that sympathy for those attacking asylum seekers' lodgings has risen sharply, to 16% in western Germany and 15% in the east. Surveys have also shown a third of German youth to be openly antiforeign or inclined in that direction and about a quarter of Germans agreeing with the right-wing slogan "Foreigners...
...antiforeign assaults mounted, Bonn remained paralyzed by a debate over whether constitutional changes were the solution. Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democratic Union insisted that an amendment to curtail the right of asylum was the only way to stop racial violence. After much internal strife, the opposition Social Democrats seem ready to agree. But a belated victory for Kohl will not erase suspicions that his government has been more concerned with political gain and bolstering its own appeal to a right-leaning electorate than with law-and-order measures to end the strife in the streets...
...hate crimes in eastern Germany occurred just as the 1.6 million Turks in western Germany were becoming accepted. There is no longer widespread anti-Turkish prejudice, says Barbara John, the Berlin commissioner for foreigners. "The contrary is true," she says. "West Germans have taken to defending the Turks against antiforeign slander coming from the east...