Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mitterand: Easy, P.W. Letting Mandela out of jail would give the masses more fortitude we may not be able to counter. Our valuable capital is at stake. The U.S. defense industry might go under without the precious metals you provide them. We're all depending...
Inevitably, many countries have mounted efforts to counter the outflowing tide. An Israeli professional in the U.S. who considers going home, for example, receives a banquet of blandishments. The local consulate sends his or her resume to at least three prospective employers in Israel and helps the applicant finance a trip back home for job interviews. If the candidate accepts a position, the Israeli government makes available a host of benefits, including a handsome mortgage on a new house, loans to cover moving costs and a waiver of customs duties on everything except...
...miles separate Shanghai from Bogota. In Jackson Heights on Roosevelt Avenue, they butt right up against each other, as when, one recent afternoon, a Colombian teenager loped into a hole-in-the-wall take-out restaurant. "You do chicken?" he asked haltingly. The Chinese teenager behind the counter frowned for a moment, baffled, then smiled. "Dumpling!" she said, nodding. "We have all kind dumpling...
...equipment and 400,000 technical documents. As a result, declares Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, they have cut the U.S. technological lead from ten years to as little as three. For the U.S. and its NATO allies, who rely on brains to beat brawn, on "smart weapons" to counter the larger Warsaw Pact forces, the high-tech drain is a factor of consequence in the precarious balance of power...
...Harvard is first and foremost an educational institution the purpose of which is to inquire for truths. Nothing runs more counter to this ideal than supporting a country that operates on lies, on slavery and genocide," says Black Students Association Vice-President Anthony A. Ball...