Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economic moves against the U.S.S.R.: "I haven't called for a trade embargo, but I have called for a very substantial tightening of technology, which I think we have fed to them by legal means and had it pilfered from us by illegal means. We have to recognize that trade with the Soviet Union is not like trade with Britain or France or Japan. The profits that arise from trade in the Soviet Union go directly, for the most part, to the military. In the case of a power that uses everything it can to enhance its military...
...angrily blame their economic problems on what they see as the Reagan Administration's failure to bring down world interest rates and on a stubborn protectionist streak in U.S. trade policy. In addition, the Europeans object to seeming inconsistencies in American policy-like refusing to impose a grain embargo on the Soviets while simultaneously demanding sacrifices from the Europeans. Strained by a bewildering array of tensions, including disruptive left-wing demonstrations over nuclear disarmament and U.S. policy in El Salvador, the Western Alliance is in greater disarray than at any time since Jimmy Carter's sharp turn against...
...they were. Losses were high at first-$29 million during the first 26 months-because fuel prices jumped after the 1973 Arab oil embargo. After that, the fortunes of Federal Express rose sharply. By the mid-1970s, revenues were running at 50% above projections. Smith now has plans to expand his overnight service to Europe...
President Reagan and his top aides came into office vowing that linkage would be a cornerstone of their foreign policy. But pressure from American farmers led Reagan to lift the grain embargo that Carter had imposed after the invasion of Afghanistan. Pressure from the NATO allies, from pragmatists in the State Department and from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who were not eager for a new arms race, led the Administration to begin negotiations on European missiles in November-and to continue them despite the imposition of martial law in Poland...
...York Times, Kissinger charged the Administration with failing to lead the West in the Polish crisis and with lacking a coherent approach to the world. Though he said, "I continue to believe that the Administration embodies the best chance for free peoples," Kissinger urged public debate on a grain embargo against the Soviets and a credit freeze on debt-ridden Poland. He called for a suspension of all high-level U.S. talks. Instead of seeing a clear and potentially effective response, lamented Kissinger, "freedom-loving Poles who looked West saw dithering procrastination, sophisticated justification for impotence, or rhetoric incapable...