Word: buffering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until recently, California's burgeoning service sector and smaller-than-average manufacturing sector helped buffer the state from trouble. But the national recession eventually eroded California's splendid near isolation from the economic woes of the country at large. Signs of economic pressure are now evident across the state's diversified industrial base. By next June General Motors and Ford will have closed four out of five automobile assembly plants in the span of three years. The once booming housing industry is expected to finish the year with only 60,000 housing starts, down from...
...moderate leaders--tribal, white and Afrikaner--claiming that they, not SWAPO, represent the population. South Africa, for its part, has continually balked at the one-man-one-vote system which would leave whites and Afrikaners in the minority. This barrier, together with South Africa's insistence on keeping a buffer state between itself and Angola, has reduced negotiations for Namibian independence to fruitless, repetitive jockeyings...
Navy's lead remained in double figures throughout the second stanza and five minutes into the hall the Midshipmen hosted a 17 point buffer. The Harvard regulars simply hadn't recovered from the strain of a rocky opening half...
Gemayel also indicated last week that he wants to use the U.S. as a buffer between Lebanon and Israel in negotiating agreements that appear to be essential in restoring a stable and independent country. He opposes Jerusalem's demands for a peace treaty between the two nations on the grounds that it would alienate the rest of the Arab world. The logical starting point, therefore, is a U.S.-negotiated agreement to withdraw all foreign forces from Lebanon. Neither Syria nor Israel, however, wants to be the first to pull out, and Israel is asking for solid assurances that...
...buffer between the Indian Ocean and Saudi Arabia, Oman (pop. 948,000) is on a permanent state of alert against its neighbor to the southwest, the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, or South Yemen, which has the only Marxist regime in the Arab world. Until early 1976 South Yemen fueled a rebellion inside the Dhofar province of Oman, and South Yemen still keeps nine infantry and three artillery battalions, plus 60 Soviet-made tanks, just across the Oman border, as well as 160 more tanks in the rear. The Soviets are expanding an air base at Al Ghaida...