Word: center
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military manufacturers will have to learn to cope with keener foreign competition, just as consumer-products companies have done. Otherwise, according to a report by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, "in place of the arsenal of democracy, the U.S. may find it has only the best pizza parlors in the world." Robert Costello, until recently the Assistant Secretary for Acquisition in the Pentagon, has urged American companies to enter into joint ventures with foreign manufacturers to capture more offshore business...
...sure I would agree with that adjective "leftist" attached to Cardenas or to what he represents in Mexico. I think "leftist" has a connotation in the U.S.: Communism, or anti-Americanism, which is not applicable to Cardenas. I would call Cardenas a left-of-center nationalist alternative to the present system. Does he represent a threat to the U.S.? I don't think so. I think most people in Mexico understand, as they have understood for years now, beginning with Cardenas' father ((President Lazaro Cardenas)) 50 years ago, that Mexico has to get along with the U.S. No government...
...elsewhere: in the suburbs, the country, anywhere but the city. Nonsense, says Whyte. "The core of the city has held. It has not gone to hell." What is more, he argues, "the city remains a magnificent place to do business, and that is part of the rediscovery of the center. While we are losing a lot of functions that we used to enjoy, we are intensifying the most important function of all -- a place for coming together...
Whyte puts his faith in something he calls "the impulse of the center," which animates his vision of the teeming urban core. "You see it at cocktail parties," he says, "the phenomenon where people move toward the center. It is an instinct to be in a position of maximum choice...
...Duke sauntered into the Convention Center with Neil Diamond's "America" blaring in the background. The song, like the speech that followed it, was corny and cliched, but for the first time during the campaign Dukakis was able to make an emotional connection with his audience...