Word: grows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just as the specter of an East-West conflict has receded, East-East police actions may also grow harder to justify, and someday perhaps harder to execute. Hungary, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria have all followed Gorbachev's lead by announcing large cuts in defense spending. The gradual demilitarization of those societies could fuel economic reform by freeing resources for civilian industry...
...dispute realize that a strike at the financially hemorrhaging carrier may finally send Eastern to "the corporate graveyard," as Lorenzo puts it. Eastern posted record losses of $335 million in 1988 and since then has been losing an estimated $1 million a day, a deficit that can only grow during the strike...
...Johnson was apparently no exception to the rule. Francis said that in the fall of 1981 he explained to Johnson that anabolic steroids, artificial hormones that enhance the body's ability to grow muscle, marked the only path to international success in the explosive 100-meter dash. After some hesitation, said the coach, Johnson agreed to try the drugs...
Congress loves to get tough with foreigners when it writes trade bills, but it hates to get tough with itself when it sets tax rates and funds expensive programs. For his part, the President continues to bank on the wishful thinking that the economy can grow its way out of the red; he refuses to face up to the reality that spending cuts and higher taxes are needed to make real progress toward reducing the $155.1 billion budget deficit...
Meanwhile, the ranks of opposition Democrats continued to grow as Sen. Terry Sanford (D-N.C.), a Southern Democrat the administration hoped to see in its corner, said he would vote against the nomination. Sens. Alan Cranston (D-Calif) and Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) also said they would oppose the nomination--raising the number of opposition Democrats...