Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promotional contract as Miss Universe, the curtain came crashing down on the regime which for nearly half a century has run the show in her home country. And although the violence emanated from Managua, most eyes looked to Washington as Carter faced his latest test of leadership in foreign police...
...reconstruction should not start in the rubble of a bombed-out country, but at the source, with an examination of U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. could try instigating more responsible policies than paranoically giving massive subsidies to the power-puffed, heavy-handed Shah. I could avoid alienating practices such as shoring up Pol Pot, (whose administration did not fall so much as it rotted out from beneath him) in an odious attempt to expiate the unforgivable acts of the U.S. relations with "non-priority" countries like Mexico, earning the resentment and distrust of yet another country when its reserves...
Since that year, when it became the first foreign automaker ever to produce cars in the U.S., Volkswagen has been winning back part of the ground it lost in the mid-1970s to the Japanese trio of Toyota, Datsun and Honda. While Volkswagen's sales rose 13% worldwide dur ing this year's first half, they spurted ahead 41% in the U.S., where the company is now the fourth largest seller of foreign cars, with 3.4% of the market. Volkswagen's goal is a 5% share, and it could easily sell more cars...
Volkswagen's moves are certain to cause other foreign automakers to recon sider their plans for producing in the U.S. Volvo, which two years ago canceled plans to start production at the plant it owns in Chesapeake, Va., might be tempted to produce its new lightweight "Car of the Eighties" there. The Japanese, who face much the same currency problem as the Germans, are bound to consider American production seriously as a way to stop Volkswagen from regaining for good its old dominance over them...
...ironed before next year. But to their credit the Soviets seemed obsessively determined to correct their mistakes and make the most impressive Olympiad yet. Spartakiad features 10,000 Soviet athletes, sifted from nearly 100 million entrants over two years of eliminations and-for the first time-2,500 foreign competitors. The games were organized so that the Soviets have a better chance of gaming the finals, and of the 87 other nations, not all entered their top competitors. The U.S., for instance, sent only 109 athletes, of whom only eight are top-ranked in their event. Still, the U.S. broke...