Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter how foolishly the Republicans grin on TV, "Liberty and Justice for All," is not a reality in the U.S., and not even a question in the rest of the hemisphere. But voting for the Democratic ticket--with its serious and sensitive foreign policy--can be a step in that direction...
...Popular Front was born out of the "alienation" many Estonians feel toward existing social and political organizations. The popular front movements have certainly reinvigorated public debate in the Baltics, inspiring proposals for everything from local convertible currencies and free economic zones to the establishment of independent relations with foreign countries. If such dreams and hopes result in nothing but more empty words, the return of old frustrations will be all the more bitter...
...Government's Rocky Flats plutonium-processing plant in Colorado became the second weapons facility to be shut down in less than two months, after three people were exposed to radioactive material. Simultaneously, a Government report charged DOE-run weapons-research labs with lax security during visits by foreign experts, including some from Soviet bloc countries...
...progress may be slowing. That prospect has aborted the U.S. dollar's summer rally. The currency fell last week to 128.25 yen, capping a decline of 4% since August. The plunging dollar reflected the belief among traders that a weaker currency will be necessary to wean U.S. consumers from foreign imports...
...must Yugoslavia, which went its own way after 1948, but whose economic problems are now among the most serious in the region. Living standards have plummeted over the past several months, with inflation now rising at more than 250% annually, unemployment at 16% and a foreign debt of $21 billion. But the withering economy has merely exacerbated, rather than created, nationalist animosities among the six republics and two autonomous provinces that make up Yugoslavia's loose federal structure. Tito, the father of postwar Yugoslavia, often brutally suppressed local nationalist sentiments when they occurred. After his death, that authoritarian rule gave...