Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second bid for the Senate, Democratic Lieutenant Governor Harriet Woods fell to Republican former governor Christopher "Kit" Bond, in a race that ran closer than was expected...
...race for attorney general between favored Democrat James M. Shannon and Republican Edward F. Harrington is becoming closer as election day nears, campaign officials...
Indeed, the Soviets view the rapprochement between Peking and East European governments as part of their own campaign for closer relations with the Chinese. Last month Jaruzelski stopped off in Moscow for talks with Soviet , officials before and after his journey to China. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev is said to want to re-establish high-level political ties between Moscow and Peking. That desire so far has been frustrated, although cordial talks by various middle-ranking officials have been going on between the two Communist nations since...
...South Africa since 1982, and IBM, while profitable, has been losing market share to Japanese computer makers. Last week the U.S. consulate in Johannesburg released a Commerce Department economic report prepared for American investors labeling South Africa as a "chronic debtor" and an "import-starved" nation that is "closer to becoming just another African state." With the apartheid issue nowhere near a solution, more U.S. corporate executives came to view South Africa's social and economic future as uncertain at best. Says Lawrence Fox, vice president of the Washington-based National Association of Manufacturers: "Developments in South Africa offered...
...also advocated a closer attention to the problems of managerial efficiency and employer-employee relations...