Word: bordered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...market forces but on the needs of its employees. The workers' "dignity" demands also merit support: in a time of high unemployment, workers need Harvard to make a binding legal commitment to the University's current discretionary policy of providing alternative jobs when it claimants their positions. In a border sense, the hard-working dining hall personnel deserve both the feeling and the reality of greater power and self-determination on their jobs. They shouldn't for example, be made to feel that they are malingering every time they take sick leave...
...ground artillery bombardments rained down on guerrilla positions. Earlier, Soviet helicopter gunships and fighter-bombers had pounded Charikar, the capital of Parwan province, and villages in the nearby Kheyr Khaneh Pass, sending thousands of refugees into the capital city of Kabul. Those who were able to flee across the border into Pakistan called last week's attacks the heaviest since the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. After the attacks, Soviet helicopters dropped leaflets saying "Peace...
...soften up their withdrawal routes for the time when a pullout is arranged. But Moscow was hardly taking any chances. In Ghazni, south of Kabul, some 10,000 Soviet troops, along with ground and air support, were reportedly massed in preparation for a maneuver to seal off the border with Pakistan...
Pakistan has good reason to hope for a solution to the 3½-year-old conflict, which has sent 3 million Afghan refugees, many of them heavily armed, streaming across the border. Pakistan recently ordered the guerrillas to move out of Peshawar and into more remote regions closer to the Afghan border. In an attempt to reassure the rebels, Zia said last week that Pakistan would continue to support the Afghan resistance until a satisfactory political solution had been achieved...
Haddad calls the territory "Free Lebanon." To most people, however, the area is known as "Haddadland." With Israeli backing, Haddad established the border enclave to thwart deployment of United Nations peace-keeping forces and regular Lebanese army units. Last February, he announced that he was extending his control over the entire 28-mile-wide zone that Israel has said is essential to its security. This part of Lebanon has 600,000 residents, who are predominantly Shi'ite Muslims. But it also includes a substantial number of Christians, Sunni and Druze Muslims, as well as some 200,000 Palestinians...