Word: chip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's advisers admitted that Rumsfeld had never brought up Goodman with the Syrians, but only because Washington had not wanted the flyer to become a bargaining chip in negotiations on Lebanon. White House aides asserted that Reagan did not return Jackson's calls for fear of destroying the minister's credibility with the Syrians. If the President had talked to him, they said, Jackson might have carried the taint of an official emissary. During the Rose Garden ceremony, Jackson thanked Reagan for at least not impeding his mission...
...will not solve problems. However they may feel about the colonial era, it cannot be expunged from history. The positive legacies of the past must be emphasized, while new ideas are tested to deal with the problems of the present and future. A high priority will be to chip away at divisive tribal enmities. Finally, Africans must accept the essential requirement of political stability: the orderly, peaceful transfer of power in the best interest of the governed. Without that resolve, nationhood in Africa will too often be, as it has been in the past, a sad parody of itself...
...both went to basketball camps during the summer to find the tougher competition our small league of Chicago private schools could not provide. Duncan went to a blue-chip camp in Kentucky that year. He was invited to play there so that college scouts could get a closer look. At the end of the summer he was considered one of the best guards in the state of Illinois...
...products faltered both at home and abroad. The company, which prides itself on the warmth of its employee relations, had to make a series of painful layoffs. Kodak stock, meanwhile, sank 12.5% during the year despite the bull market, making it the worst performer among the 30 blue-chip issues in the Dow Jones industrial average...
Last year's peppier bond sales still ran far below the $7.8 billion pace of 1978. Nonetheless, Treasury officials are convinced that the savings bond is on its way back to being a blue-chip investment and a superb stocking stuffer...