Word: assets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...uprooted by a quirk of the same apartheid regime, is helping his black workers become shareholders in his thriving $10 million fruit-exporting business. The 170 laborers on his farm, some descended from slaves of the original Dutch settlers, have for the first time in their lives a financial asset to pass on to their children...
These measures, as even Dole admits, hold out little hope of turning the tide of battle in Bihac or elsewhere in Bosnia. But they are guaranteed to do great damage to the foremost U.S. foreign policy asset in the world: NATO. Lifting the arms embargo and mounting air strikes against the Serbs would endanger the thousands of British, French and other peacekeeping troops on the ground in Bosnia. Conveniently, the U.S. has none there, which invites Dole's cowboy notions. The French and British are justifiably apoplectic at a U.S. that is unwilling to risk a single soldier...
...There's nothing bad I can say," Brown says. "I would say for someone following in his footsteps, he's a good mentor. I hope [the program] continues on and on. It really is a great asset to any parent whose children are going...
...better informed group of merchants would be an asset for us and the kind of qualitative experience that we want our students to have at Harvard," Epps said...
...better informed group of merchants would be an asset for us and the kind of qualitative experience that we want our students to have to Harvard...