Word: building
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interview with TIME, the President declared, "Pakistan has the capability of building the Bomb. You can write today that Pakistan can build a bomb whenever it wishes. Once you have acquired the technology, which Pakistan has, you can do whatever you like." Zia added, however, that Pakistan still has no actual plan to make nuclear weapons...
...text. In adding to Defoe's repertory company, Coetzee has introduced urgencies that are neither fresh nor illumined, only brilliantly disguised. Flashing back and forward, scattering allusions, adopting a series of poses and styles, the author is less reminiscent of a prior novelist than of contemporary street mimes who build hints until the audience shouts in recognition. Readers of this achingly symbolic retelling are likely to give a similar response. But will they applaud the author -- or will they really be congratulating themselves...
...challenges are coming from Mexico's eight opposition parties. The largest by far is the National Action Party, a conservative organization with strength in the northern states of Sonora and Chihuahua and a growing constituency among the middle class. Traditionally, the P.A.N. has had two weaknesses: a failure to build grass-roots support and a tendency to recede into the shadows except at election time. The P.A.N.'s newly elected leader, Luis Alvarez, 67, is determined, however, to make his party a truly national...
...their statements. If they then refused to talk, they could face imprisonment for contempt of Congress. But the Senate and Walsh disagree over timing: the Senators want to expedite their Iranscam hearings. Walsh has asked that immunity be delayed for at least 90 days to give him time to build a case to indict Poindexter and North...
...none of these forces, as last week's action dramatically demonstrated, has repressed the urge to merge. Despite tax reform and rising stock prices, it is still cheaper to buy factories and offices than build them and easier to acquire new products than develop them. Modest interest rates, which are near ten-year lows, continue to make borrowing for takeovers relatively painless. Moreover, many dealmakers may be anxious to take advantage of the last two years of the Reagan Administration, which has been especially tolerant of huge mergers...