Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sponsored by Rep. Robert W. Kastenmeier (D-Wis.), the legislation originally would have enabled university researchers and small farmers to freely use patented animals for noncommercial purposes without having to fear lawsuits for patent infringement...
...explosive growth worries some Western financial experts, who fear the boom could go bust. If that happened, investors with heavy losses in Tokyo could be forced to pull money out of other markets, triggering another crash. Japanese stocks are already trading at astronomical prices in comparison with the profits of the companies that issued the shares, at least by American standards. On the New York Stock Exchange, such price-earnings ratios run about 15 to 1, while in Tokyo the multiples are often four times as high. Nippon Telegraph & Telephone trades at 158 times its earnings. "Japanese authorities have allowed...
...Fear lingers everywhere. Hardly anyone is eager to talk politics, or about the dreaded Khmer Rouge, during whose five-year reign an estimated 2 million of Kampuchea's 7 million people were killed. An exception is Bour-Chinell, 64, chief of the provincial public works department in Kampot, who says, "I want national reconciliation. It's a good idea to bring Prince Sihanouk back. The old people still love him, and the young people have all heard...
...National Liberation Front), is in dispute. Soviet and Vietnamese military advisers insist that the Kampuchean armed forces can contain the threat, but Western analysts have their doubts. Kampuchea's 30,000-man regular army and the 100,000 irregulars assigned to defend their country are largely untested. Many Kampucheans fear that once the Vietnamese draw down their forces, the Khmer Rouge may succeed in grabbing power once more...
Even now, the Khmer Rouge, with an estimated 30,000 to 35,000 guerrillas in the field, are strong enough to carry out effective military operations in many parts of the country. Soviet officials, who number in the hundreds, are not allowed, for fear of ambush, to travel by car in the countryside or to use the open, bicycle-driven pedicabs that provide most of the transportation in Phnom Penh...