Word: developers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hands are conditions which have given rise to rebellion throughout the region. Yes, Republicans have deferred attention from these pressing problems by favoring military aid and quick troop interventions. Yet by limiting its actions to countering the administration, Congress also fails to solve the true problems. The Congress should develop programs which would attack the underlying economic and social ills in Central America--something the United States has not even tried to do since the early 1960s...
...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...
...months now, the Board of Overseers has been trying to develop a position on divestment. This weekend a select committee of the Board will meet to decide whether the committee-as-a-whole has the power to vote on the matter at all. Instead of ensuring that this issue gets the deliberation it deserves, Steiner helped create an agenda front-loaded with lectures from pro-administration officials, leaving scant time for discussion among Board members...
...Department has quietly told Saudi Arabia that it would not oppose, as it has for decades, Riyadh's proposal to establish full diplomatic relations with Moscow. Washington recognizes that the fervently anti-Communist Saudis are only recognizing the reality of growing Soviet power in the region. If no hitches develop, the Saudis and Soviets may go public with their friendship between Election Day and the 1989 presidential Inauguration, when the U.S. is preoccupied with the change of White House occupants...
...fascinating and realistic person, the perfect complement to the Lear-ish Susan. Fass captures Alice's precarious perch on the line between comedy and cynicism. The audience simultaneously shudders and laughs as she whips sarcasms and insults at her hapless student Dorcas Grey (Sarah Stevenson). Fass knows how to develop a character, and she has the timing and the bearing of a classic comedian, the ideal safety valve in a complex tragedy...