Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mayor Emil Kirokofyan told the first group of foreign correspondents to visit the area after Wednesday's quake that recently constructed apartment buildings had not been built to withstand such a severe temblor--even though Leninakan is in an area of frequent earthquakes...
...last week that unless the Government reduces its huge borrowing needs, "there is the risk of a real financial disturbance. It would bring about the kind of recession that would be the most difficult to handle." One way in which the deficit has triggered higher rates is by undermining foreign confidence in the dollar, which plunged more than 3% against the Japanese yen in the three weeks after the U.S. election. To stabilize the currency, the U.S. has had to allow interest rates to rise as an incentive to foreign investors...
LEST we believe that a post-military era will be safe and relaxing, it should be noted that economic or technological dominance by a foreign power will as surely corrupt our culture and ideals as any invasion. Over the last two decades, we have been a helpless giant in Vietnam, in Lebanon, in Iran, in Nicaragua, in Panama. Our impotence has been manifest all over the world...
...like the Soviet Union, possess a war economy, centered on a military-industrial complex, with a variety of inefficient producers protected by their cozy relations with the armed forces. Yet war as we understand it is becoming obsolete. Clearly, much of Gorbachev's foreign and domestic policies are designed to reform the Soviet economy into a more rational and competitive one. His challenge is also ours. The question we must ask ourselves is this: can America survive in the world after...
Among those absent were children left in foreign countries with relatives, children left in other states with spouses, and the children of those who, because of lack of affordable child care, could not apply to, attend, teach or work at the K-School. We believe that while lack of child care obviously means temporary separation for some parents and children, it may also be a barrier to higher education for others, particularly women and minorities...