Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pledged to eliminate the $150 billion trade deficit in four years by reducing the budget deficit, increasing foreign trade, investing in education and putting more emphasis on research. He said Bush wouldn't talk about his plans...
...about the kingdom that suggests it will not easily fall hostage to the people it attracts. For perhaps the most alluring attribute of Thailand is its simple ambiguity, the merest hint that its designs are always subtler than any visitor's perception of them. The Thais like to remind foreigners that theirs is the only Asian country never to have been colonized or occupied by a Western power, and even if this reflects nothing but the culture's gift for co-opting foreign influences, it also suggests its facility for remaining just outside the foreigner's reach. Thailand's charms...
...authoritarian rule, Pinochet agrees to uphold results of a plebiscite. While the vote is a turning point, it will not transform the country overnight, and the future is far from certain. -- Perestroika brings intriguing changes to the KGB. -- Why South Africa is so eagerly courting its black neighbors. -- Foreign troops are leaving, but Angola still bleeds...
With six national groups and more than a dozen other ethnic groups in a population of only 24 million, Yugoslavia's nationality problems have been a source of conflict for centuries, but they have been aggravated by economic woes: inflation at 217%, unemployment at 15%, a foreign debt of $21 billion. Though a party plenum this month will try to defuse regional strife and revive the economy, a Slovene television producer fretted, "No one says it out loud, but everyone worries that ((the crisis)) can even lead to civil...
...Algerie and the Post and Telegraph Service. Last week the growing anger over high prices and unemployment exploded into the worst riots to rock the nation since it won independence from France 26 years ago. For three days gangs of youths rampaged through Algiers, attacking government buildings, supermarkets, foreign airline offices, restaurants and nightclubs. On Friday some 6,000 demonstrators chanted Islamic slogans...