Word: commanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though low-cost Chinese textile exports command less than 1% of the $100 billion U.S. market, they have grown at an average rate of 70% annually for the past three years. Among foreign textile suppliers to the U.S., China now trails only Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea. Prodded by the U.S. Government, the top three agreed to set a limit of 1.5% to 2% on the growth of their exports this year. The U.S. was willing to allow the Chinese an increase of slightly more than 2%, but Peking demanded 6%. When negotiations collapsed in January, the U.S. imposed...
...Pentagon spokesman said that the VC-9C, parrying sophisticated communications equipment, was necessary because "the Secretary of Defense is in the national military command authority chain. As such he must be instantly contactable at all times." Half an hour before takeoff last Friday, the flight, which had attracted national press attention, was scrubbed. Pentagon officials said the press of business kept Weinberger grounded...
...Emperor has shared his quiet life with Empress Nagako, 80, whom he married, by traditional arrangement, in 1924. A merry music lover who has enjoyed command performances by Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson, Nagako is also a distinguished painter. On walks, the royal couple like to collect plants, which, it is said, he studies and she sketches. Together they incarnate the classical Japanese ideal of mutual devotion...
...Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon and Scotland's University of Edinburgh have introduced word processing, video games, time sharing, robot control and advanced missile-guidance systems. Lately, AI research has concentrated on building systems that can mimic the brain work of skilled experts in such fields as oil exploration, battlefield command and computer design itself. Now Japan has made it a national goal to take its place within ten years among the world leaders in the emerging knowledge industry. "We no longer need chase the more developed countries," a consortium of Japanese computer manufacturers and scholars declared...
...cities as Osaka, Nagoya and Kyoto. There is a booming recital scene, featuring both native artists and foreign performers who come to Japan attracted by the high fees and attentive, respectful audiences. Music schools turn out string players and pianists who are the equal of any in their technical command and knowledge of the repertory...