Word: foreign
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...democracy movement is at a low point," says Yang, "we can do it here--use the foreign countries and students as a base for the prodemocracy movement...
Prime Minister Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski told Bush the speech "contained many thoughts permeated with realism." But Foreign Minister Tadeusz Olechowski said his nation was not looking for "a rain of gold...
...party General Secretary Jiang Zemin also met two foreign delegations--from Romania and Ethiopia--in a show of diplomacy as usual despite icy relations with Western governments protesting China's bloody supression of unarmed demonstrators...
...hard-line U.S. position was prompted by the trade bill passed by Congress last year, which compels the Trade Representative to battle foreign protectionist barriers aggressively. Japan's willingness to give ground last week was an encouraging sign that the country is determined to avoid a major blowup in forthcoming rounds of barrier-bashing talks required...
That strategy, however, has a catch. If the U.S were to develop new domestic sources of oil, the country could reduce its dependence on foreign tankers in its harbors. Last year foreign producers provided the U.S. with 37% of its oil supplies, up from 27% in 1985. Since foreign oil enters the country mostly by tanker, growing imports only increase the odds of new spills. According to projections by Ohio Democrat Mary Oakar, chairwoman of the House Economic Stabilization Subcommittee, by the end of the 1990s as much as 90% of the oil consumed in the U.S. could arrive...