Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...improving their human-rights record by releasing political prisoners, allowing greater Jewish emigration, and ending the jamming of Western radio broadcasts. By joining the session, the Administration hopes to win Soviet agreement to close out a conference on European security and cooperation in Vienna, providing Reagan with a final foreign policy victory. That would, in turn, allow Bush to begin substantive new talks aimed at reducing NATO and Warsaw Pact conventional forces...
...Foreign investors, who have been snapping up U.S. assets ranging from skyscrapers to forests, are latching onto more ethereal pieces of Americana: popular songs. In two takeovers last week, the publishing rights to nearly 300,000 American tunes passed into foreign hands...
...keep narrowing at anywhere near that pace because the growth of U.S. exports will slow this year. According to this view, the dollar will have to take a real plunge if the trade gap is to be narrowed much further. This would make American-made goods less expensive for foreign consumers. Recently, the trade deficit has been declining only slightly, falling from $10.7 billion in September to $10.3 billion in October...
...regime considers itself a victim of terrorism in the shoot-out of ( 1986, so it has written new rules. According to Foreign Minister Abdul Aziz Ad-dali, it now strictly adheres to United Nations terrorism standards. "Revolutionaries like members of the P.L.O. or the African National Congress are welcome," he said, "but you will not find one terrorist here...
...region' s fragile democracies face social unrest and political turmoil if their massive foreign loans are not reduced, but U. S. institutions have yet to come up with many acceptable solutions. -- Why do Australia' s Aborigines die at alarming rates in police custody? -- South Yemen embraces a modest version of perestroika. -- Racial troubles flare in the Chinese city of Nanjing...