Word: burnish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...benefits would be the creation of up to 60,000 jobs during the estimated six-year construction period. With unemployment running at 9.8% in France and an even higher 13.2% in Britain, the project has economic and political appeal for both leaders. Moreover, Mitterrand hopes that the venture will burnish his image before legislative elections on March 16, which his Socialist Party is currently expected to lose...
Stock-market gamblers are not the only investors nursing wounds from 1984. The value of gold dropped 20%; silver was down 30%. Some antiques, however, kept their burnish. The price of Chinese ceramics rose 6%. One of the best investment bets in 1984 was bonds. The average return for high-quality, long- term corporate certificates, counting price appreciation and assuming that interest was reinvested...
...Pentagon works to burnish its election-year image
...this is adequate and their dossiers show no signs of unresolved crimes will membership be confirmed. The presumed purpose is to remove Maoists who still oppose Deng's policies. Thus the campaign is being linked in an indirect way to two other Chinese trends: a move to burnish Deng's prestige and a drive against crime. Each, in its own way, is aimed at increasing Deng's popularity and power-and ensuring the survival of his policies beyond the grave...
...fated journey last week was also designed to burnish Chun's image at home; since seizing power after the 1979 assassination of Park Chung Hee and winning the election of 1980, the President has yet to emerge as a truly popular leader. The explosion in Rangoon, no matter who was responsible, was bound to bring South Koreans closer together-if only, once again, in anguish...