Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alexiades, who is fluent in Greek and Spanish, has also served as a foreign language tutor for the last ten years...
...SPORT: Foreign athletes and U.S. teams look abroad
Critics of Super 301 fretted that the tactics might backfire, provoking retaliatory measures from a Japan that is tired of being blamed for U.S. economic ills. The rumblings from Japan were ominous. Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno called in newly appointed U.S. Ambassador Michael Armacost to protest Japan's inclusion on the list. "As a result of many market-opening measures, the Japanese market has now become wide open," he insisted. "None of the identified ((restrictions)) can be considered to constitute trade barriers...
Fears that the U.S. has lost its competitive edge go hand in hand with the uneasy feeling that America's standing as the leader of the free world has slipped. "America is scared to death of not being No. 1 any longer," says a foreign banker in Japan. Jagdish Bhagwati, a professor of economics at Columbia University, talks of the "diminished-giant syndrome." A committed free trader, Bhagwati warns that the impulse of declining empires is to throw around their diluted power with such potentially self-damaging measures as trade barriers...
...powerful head of the ISI, Pakistan's military-intelligenc e agency. A protege of the late President Zia ul-Haq, Gul has wielded enormous power ever since his appointment in 1987. Besides keeping tabs on Zia's political foes, including the Bhutto family, the ISI also distributed foreign money and arms to the mujahedin rebels fighting the Soviet-backed Najibullah regime in Afghanistan...