Word: firming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several years ago another computer firm bid for the job of financial aid processing, Smythe said, but was not able to do it as inexpensively...
Frank is also suffering from an American obsession with sexual controversy. House Member Joseph P. McDade (R-Pa.), a powerful Republican on the Appropriations Committee, is now under fire for allegedly taking illegal contributions from a corrupt defense firm, and then channeling to the firm millions in taxpayer dollars...
...moves demonstrated Gorbachev's firm control at the pinnacle of Soviet power at a time when economic failures and ethnic violence prompted some Soviets to fret openly about the possibility of a coup or civil war. Gorbachev is both the nation's president and the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party...
After campaigning on a traditional Peronist platform urging higher salaries for workers but offering no real vision for solving the country's economic woes, Menem stunned the Peronist faithful by turning to the leaders of a giant multinational firm (Bunge & Born), a traditional enemy of theirs, to devise the new government's economic recovery plan...
...strategically vital field of computers, no European firm is capable of competing with America's IBM or Japan's Fujitsu. "We know very well that European companies still are a long way away from having the critical mass necessary to stand up to the competition," concedes Gianni Agnelli, chairman of Italy's Fiat. Still, some success stories show that Western Europe has not been entirely eclipsed at the high-tech end of the market, where the battle for survival will be keenest. Airbus Industrie has emerged as Boeing's main competitor in the lucrative commercial aviation sector. While...