Word: headway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policymakers agreed readily enough on the main elements of the assessment. The Salvadoran government was making some headway in a new offensive against the leftist guerrillas, but might not be able to maintain its momentum with no more U.S. aid than it is now getting. In Nicaragua, the contras had been unable to capture any towns, but they were attracting recruits faster than the CIA could arm and train them. An apparently worried Nicaraguan government had responded by calling in more outside help. According to the Defense Intelligence Agency, some 1,200 Cuban military advisers had been spotted in Nicaragua...
During that bonanza, Mexico added $48 billion to its foreign debt, for a total at present of $85.5 billion, and only last summer it tottered on the brink of national bankruptcy. Now, however, the country appears to be making some headway toward dealing with the debt, which is expected to cost $10.5 billion in interest payments this year alone. The new government of President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, which was inaugurated in December, has begun an austerity program aimed at slashing Mexico's huge budget deficit, halting unnecessary government spending programs and slowing its virulent, 116% inflation...
...fine arts and acquires a picture or two. She reads, and her bookcase shows some Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson. In deference to modernity, she even does some sociology. Then when a member of my obsessive sex who simple-heartedly looks to the Business School Via economics seeks to make headway with her, she starts educating him--needless to say, a lifelong process...
...long as our society considers the taking of cocaine to be within the bounds of socially acceptable behavior, then nothing, including intensive rehabilitation programs, can help us make headway toward solving this problem...
...that the U.S. supported Israel's "legitimate security interests" as well as Lebanon's "sovereignty and independence." But Washington generally favors the Lebanese position. The Reagan Administration fears that wide-ranging discussions would merely prolong the crisis in Lebanon and would prevent the U.S. from making any headway on President Reagan's Sept. 1 peace plan, which calls for a future association between Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip...