Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are examples, though, of a counter-trend. For example, recent pressure for House academic activities has revived the issue of masters' autonomy...
...relentless piling up of arms. In 1977 the Kremlin started emplacing mobile, accurate, triple-warhead SS-20 nuclear missiles in the Far East and in the western U.S.S.R.; those in Europe vastly increased the destructive power aimed at U.S. NATO allies. The SS-20s were supposedly intended to counter the threat posed to Moscow by British and French nuclear weapons, but by the end of 1978 they already exceeded the British and French forces in the number of warheads...
...Arab standardbearer. Though the terms of the 1980 Soviet pact with Damascus have never been revealed, officials in Moscow have hinted that Soviet troops would enter the fray only if Syrian territory were invaded. According to British intelligence officials, Moscow would unleash the Soviet-manned SA-5s to counter a full-scale Israeli move against Syrianheld Lebanon, but it would hold its fire in the face of a U.S. offensive, leaving it to the Syrians to retaliate. Administration officials believe that the Syrian attacks on U.S. reconnaissance planes were not an invitation to war but a probinig of how much...
Such rival publications as BusinessWeek and London's Financial Times are publishing their own versions, both to boost their visibility and to log sizable profits. BusinessWeek fills its Executive Desk Planner with features like a collection of management tips. FORTUNE, whose diary includes a calorie counter, a listing of the largest U.S. industrial corporations and silver-edged pages, mails a free copy of the book to the chief executive of each company on the FORTUNE 500 list...
...suffering a broken leg when another crowd of 1,000 turned violent after waiting eight hours to get into a Zayre store in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.? Departmental Manager William Shigo could provide no explanation either. He armed himself with a baseball bat to defend his position behind the counter. Said he: "Get back, you're breaking my legs...