Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republicans voting supported the bill--as a symbolic gesture for the flag, one said. But the Republican leadership blocked the Democrats' plan to bring the bill before the full House next week...
...F.S.L.N. also promised to bring a better life to Nicaragua's poor, pledging dozens of reforms the Sandinistas have yet to deliver. It assured struggling mothers like 39-year-old Esperanza Lopez that her children would flourish. But her job as a maid in Chinandega pays only about $10 a month, to support three young ones. Says she: "I can only feed them once a day. Maybe it's true that we earned less under the dictatorship, but you could buy more with...
...Miata is a rolling rebuke to Detroit, which has continued to lose ground to Japanese automakers amid slumping car sales. Mazda spent only about $100 million to develop the Miata, a fraction of what U.S. manufacturers typically spend to bring out a new model. For one thing, the Miata is devoid of digital display panels, electronic suspension and other costly gewgaws favored by Detroit's Big Three. Instead, Mazda lavished attention on Miata's engine, a 1.6-liter, four-cylinder model that uses more valves per cylinder (four instead of two) to provide greater zip. Mazda also focused on such...
...dismiss the talks in Cape Town as a "nonevent," an act of "political mischief" staged by Mandela's jailers. In Lusaka, Joe Modise, commander of Spear of the Nation, the guerrilla wing of the A.N.C. that Mandela helped create in 1961, insisted that "only the armed struggle will bring the Boers to negotiations...
...groom wore black and white and looked pale. His bride was glowing in a pristine white gown, even though it was the third time around for both of ! them. After a public affair that helped bring about his defeat in last month's elections, former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, 70, and Dimitra Liani, 35, were married last week in Athens. "This is the happiest day of my life," he gushed...