Word: generale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Iowa farmer Janice Sorenson turned up a huge, windmill-shaped hunk of titanium while harvesting corn last week, she knew exactly what she had found. General Electric had distributed photos of the disk in its search for the cause of the crash of a United Airlines DC-10 last July in Sioux City. The crash, which killed 112 passengers, has been blamed on the explosion of the jet's GE-made aft engine, which severed the aircraft's hydraulic control lines...
...there are some 30 bilingual or English-language publications aimed at Hispanic readers. More than 200 radio stations and approximately 50 television stations broadcast some news and talk shows in Spanish. Their potential audience is vast: the - Hispanic-American community totals 23 million and is growing faster than the general population...
Advocates of more vigorous Government, including Democratic congressional leaders, have failed so far to exploit the latent anxieties about the economy. Ambivalence reigns on the chronically contentious issue of taxes: 59% are opposed to the general proposition of raising taxes to deal with the country's problems. Yet when asked if they would pay more taxes to achieve specific goals such as improving schools or fighting drugs, the respondents answered yes on each. Why the distinction? Because of deep skepticism about performance. By a resounding 73% to 19%, Americans believe Washington delivers "less value for the taxes you pay" than...
...ruling party, formerly known as the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, is no longer officially Communist. At a five-day congress that ended in Budapest last week, 1,274 delegates voted overwhelmingly to take the Communism out of socialism and become the Hungarian Socialist Party. They also sent hard-line General Secretary Karoly Grosz into political oblivion and repudiated much of four decades of Communist rule, including the suppression of the 1956 uprising by Soviet troops...
...general also has a significant civilian power base among Panama's nonwhite majority. It stems from his image as the protector of la revolucion, the shift in political power led by Omar Torrijos Herrera, who seized control of the military in a coup 21 years ago. A cholo (a Spanish-American Indian), Torrijos gave fellow cholos, blacks, Chinese and other nonwhites new influence, both within the military and in the government. This broke the traditional monopoly held by the country's wealthy class of European descendants...