Word: highes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion in constant 1985 dollars, a 14% decline from the previous year. Among the reasons: the winding down of regional conflicts like the Iran-Iraq war, reduced oil prices and fewer petrodollars for military customers in the Middle East, and a falloff in Third World purchasing power caused by high debt levels...
...school of defense experts proposing "dual-use" planning by military contractors to seek commercial as well as defense applications for their research and manufacturing efforts. Such planning might help ease the boom-and-bust cycles of defense procurement. Perhaps more important, it could help stimulate the development of new high- technology consumer products, strengthening U.S. economic security at the same time defense firms are bolstering national security...
...Mexico-U.S. relations at a high or low point...
First there are the blond-haired good looks: striking but somehow wholesome, more high school prom queen than Hollywood glamour puss. Then there's the rich, honeyed voice: husky and authoritative, but free of the severe tone affected by some females in TV news. As a reader of the news, she is masterly: businesslike but warm, her eyes now wide with the drama of the day, now crinkling ever so slightly with concern. Diane Sawyer doesn't just deliver the news, she performs...
...dangled occasional fill-in anchor duty on World News Tonight and Nightline. The prospect of losing Sawyer so rattled CBS's bigwigs that they virtually handed her a blank check in an effort to keep her; then, when she was irretrievably gone, they ran out and hired another high-priced star, NBC's Connie Chung, to fill the gap and save some face...