Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...automakers are losing market share to the South Koreans. Last year foreign carmakers captured 31% of U.S. sales, up from 28% in 1986. Ford, which racked up an industry-record profit of $1.6 billion in the first quarter, has increased its market share, but mostly at the expense of General Motors, whose share of U.S. sales has plummeted from 46% in 1984 to about 37.5% now. Two weeks ago, GM revealed that it is staging what amounts to an orderly retreat in the face of both domestic and foreign competitors. The company will cut back on capacity, which will make...
...protests were a direct challenge to the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski, 64, who crushed Solidarity and declared martial law in 1981. Since 1987, emulating Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Jaruzelski has sought to streamline Poland's creaky economy. On Feb. 1 and April 1 of this year, the government introduced a series of price hikes accompanied by compensatory payments to workers. The result was a first-quarter inflation rate of 45% and bitter complaints that workers could not keep up with the cost of living...
...been 20 years since he died, and still it is hard to take the measure of the man. Robert Kennedy was mostly a brother in his lifetime: a campaign manager, an Attorney General and then the younger brother to whom the torch was passed. Again, as a brother, he had to battle past his own dark night of the soul to take up a doomed burden, knowing that every time he rose to speak in front of a crowd it was to stare his own death in the eye. But the Kennedy magic, both a blessing and a curse, attached...
...Bobby, the mean Bobby, into its memory. | It glosses over the young Kennedy who, as counsel to Joseph McCarthy, relished hunting down Communists; the zeal with which he pursued Jimmy Hoffa; the campaign manager who cut down political bosses who did not toe the party line; the Attorney General who acquiesced in J. Edgar Hoover's request to tap the phone of Martin Luther King...
...reputed to have welshed on deals before. Still, the word in Washington last week was that General Manuel Antonio Noriega had reached a tentative agreement with the Reagan Administration to step down as commander of the Panama defense forces. The terms of the agreement remain fuzzy, but White House officials hinted at one major U.S. concession: Noriega might be permitted to remain in his country. "We have said we prefer him to leave Panama," said White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, "but the policy issue is to leave power...