Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zhao acts in line with his past initiatives and recent statements, he is destined to accelerate the pace of China's plodding reform. In the 1970s Zhao designed policies that transformed huge, inefficient communes into privately-run plots. Three years ago he traveled to Africa, a sign of concern for China's role as an independent global power. If anyone has the right mindset about reform, it's Zhao...
There was some concern that the 5-ft., 10-in., 205-lb. forward would be forced to sit out this year after his transfer, but a check of NCAA rules showed that since he had been inactive all season, he could wear his Crimson sweater this fall...
This should be a praiseworthy response by the University to U.S. complicity in the brutalization of the South African majority. Had Harvard divested, this policy would have gone a step further in expressing concern for Black South Africans. Instead, since Harvard has divested of only a few of its holdings in South Africa-related concerns, the new policy sends businesses confusing signals about the correctness of the American presence in South Africa...
...million this year. Imports have remained fairly constant at about $750 million a year. One result of the trade imbalance: Nicaragua's foreign debt has risen from $1.6 billion when the Sandinistas came to power to more than $6 billion. Moscow, in a move seen as signaling its concern over Nicaragua's growing inability to pay its way, has announced a cutback in oil deliveries of nearly...
...issue are three air bases, a naval station and other facilities maintained by 12,000 American troops. Of special concern is the Torrejon air base outside Madrid, which houses 72 F-16 fighters assigned to help protect NATO's southern and central flanks. The Spanish want all the F-16s redeployed to some other country. The U.S. has offered to remove one-third of them. Concluded a European diplomat: "The two sides are at a dead...