Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even if the system doesn't change a bit, the freshman year housing lottery will still be the most talked-about aspect of March...
...Administration, the most troubling aspect of the report could be its economic forecast: "The prospects for achieving the goal of higher long-term economic growth are clouded by deficits." Tax increases and spending cuts will be needed to fight the deficits. "Standards of living for most people will rise less in the 1980s than they did in the 1970s and far less than they did in the 1960s," says the report...
Radical Iraq's long reach to a conservative military regime in the Southern Hemisphere illustrates how far nations will go, literally, to buy arms. An equally fascinating aspect is that Chile, despite the fact that it has to import most of its own weapons, has now become an exporter of war materiel...
According to disaffected Iranian officials, the decision to mine the Red Sea is an aspect of the terrorism to which Iran is resorting in the face of military weakness and domestic troubles. The country confronts increasing difficulty in buying arms on the world market, partly because the U.S. has made an effort during the past two years to stop the flow of weapons not only from American suppliers but from U.S. allies as well. As a result, Iran today is manufacturing more and more of its own crude weaponry. There is little doubt it has the ability to make floating...
Your account of the aborted kidnaping of Alhaji Umaru Dikko in London [WORLD, July 16] was overly concerned with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's anger over the incident. The more important aspect of the story is that other Dikko-type Nigerians are living off stolen public money in London. Instead of unpacking Dikko, Scotland Yard should be uncrating the millions of dollars that corrupt Nigerian officials have been stashing away in British banks...