Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Third World is also moving into steelmaking. Brazil and Mexico have already become exporters. Argentina and Chile are increasing their capacity. By the early 1980s some of the oil-producing Arab countries will be turning out steel. In shipbuilding, South Korea and Brazil have some yards that are more modern than Western Europe's. Along with Poland and Taiwan, they can produce bulk carriers even more cheaply than Japan...
...Wisconsin are slowly sifting American literature and records of interviews with 2,752 native Americans in 1,002 communities. The team has nearly finished editing the letter F. First conceived in 1889, the dictionary, which will include 60,000 entries, is to be published in four volumes during the 1980s by Harvard University's Belknap Press...
...rapid changes being introduced have apparently discomfited some and angered others whose families were touched by the purge of radicals (experts believe 25% of all Communist Party officials were affected). If the modernization drive should falter in the 1980s because of a huge crop failure, an unexpected drop in oil production or an inability to pay for Western technology, a radical counterforce might re-emerge in China. In that case, the dissidents would only have to look back to Mao's writings for an extensive critique of Teng's policies. Mao would also remind them: "To rebel...
...Geneva, will reach a creative conclusion by their Dec. 15 deadline. Such talks are a classic chicken game, and nothing is ever decided until the last 24 hours. What happens in the final hours may well determine whether the world economy springs ahead or merely limps along in the 1980s...
...former secretary of state warned that the reduction in the U.S. arms program will have a significant effect in the 1980s when, he said, most of the world will be in turmoil...