Word: beene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In military terms, the impact of lifting the cease-fire remains unclear. Throughout the cease-fire, government troops continued to break up the contras' support network in the provinces, and rebels staged sporadic attacks against the army. Now those occasional engagements could escalate. At least 2,000 contra guerrillas are...
In any case, the contras cannot count on a rebound of U.S. aid, even though some of the sharpest U.S. reaction to Ortega's move came from liberal legislators who have long opposed U.S. aid to the guerrillas. Said one of them, Wisconsin Congressman David Obey: "Daniel Ortega is a...
Last week, at the meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists in Austin, Sereno for the first time revealed details of the find, made last year by a joint U.S.-Argentine expedition. The dinosaur was named Herrerasaurus, after Victorino Herrera, the goat farmer who first led scientists to the area...
The news here is that the railroad train has been reinvented splendidly. On Nov. 8 at 5:55 p.m., three sleepers, a piano club car and a dining car of the American-European Express, each refitted to five-star, died-and-went-to-heaven standards, will leave Washington's Union...
But giving the worker a greater sense of importance was not enough. A change in corporate philosophy was needed, the sort of disruptive and often expensive change that works only if the commitment starts at the top. In companies where impressive quality gains have been made -- Ford, Hewlett-Packard, 3M...