Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most surprising aspect of the final club debate on campus is that some people who want to see the clubs shut down do not support Lisa Schkolnick's complaint against the Fly Club. These students do not believe that Schkolnick's suit will destroy the clubs or make them any less elitist, but rather that integrating the clubs would actually enhance their standing on campus, render them more socially acceptable, and bring them back into the center of campus life...
...chance to wound his opponents badly before they got to the negotiating table. For weeks the U.S. had been monitoring a Sandinista buildup in the Bocay Valley in northern Nicaragua. But when the attacks began on March 10, they were even larger than expected. The Nicaraguan strategy was to destroy the contra bases along the Coco River, which separates Honduras from Nicaragua, and to capture a vital depot on the Honduran side of the border. The stockpile contains an estimated 300 tons of supplies that the CIA had flown into the area before the Feb. 29 funding cutoff. Without those...
...agencies had contended that not utilizing the material might impede their investigations of the "suitability, reliability and loyalty" of applicants for sensitive federal jobs. Following abandonment of the appeal, Attorney Leonard Boudin, who represented the Socialist Workers, called the case a "laboratory dissection of the Government's attempt to destroy a political party...
...outcome of the deployment remains unknown and frightening for students, the first clear victim is the region's one hope for peace. The Central American countries attempted to set their own house in order with the Arias Plan, but superpowers on both sides of the conflict were quick to destroy that indigenous chance for peace...
While Japanese companies have been working to destroy their lingering image as mere imitators, many American firms have steadily grown less innovative. Some U.S. executives pay so much attention to short-term, bottom-line results that they hesitate to make costly investments in new products that will only pay off in the long run. Says Patents and Trademarks Commissioner Donald Quigg: "Stockholders demand more and more immediate results, but research and development does not occur overnight." Rather than develop new product lines, many firms buy them by taking over other companies...