Word: interests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Europeans a major advantage. "I don't think of science as a football game," says Ugo Amaldi, who oversees one of the LEP's detectors. "But if you look at the number of American scientists coming here, it is clear that our way of doing things is attracting interest...
...visit to Washington last month, she persuaded Bush to endorse publicly a "political solution," implying an internationally brokered deal that might allow some Afghan Communists to remain as part of a new government. Baker has privately told his Soviet counterpart, Eduard Shevardnadze, that the U.S. "has no interest in seeing a leadership in Kabul that is hostile to the U.S.S.R." Such assurances, Baker hopes, may lead Moscow to persuade its clients to accept a deal...
...reeling dollar reflected fears of recession. The Federal Reserve Board appears ready to spur the economy by letting interest rates fall, but that could further undermine the dollar by making U.S. investments less attractive to foreigners. Unemployment reached 5.3% in June, up from 5.2% in May, another sign of a slowdown...
...State had chosen not to operate any public hospitals at all." Another provision, requiring physicians to perform tests to determine whether a 20-week-old fetus could survive outside the womb, was also upheld, in part on the ground that such testing "permissibly furthers the State's interest in protecting potential human life...
...paid well at J. Crew, the two partners were frustrated entrepreneurs. Says Aschkenes: "We didn't want to be sitting on rocking chairs when we were 80 years old, never having tried it on our own." They raised $6 million in venture capital financing and now control a minority interest in the firm. The rivalry with their former bosses should be lively since the renegades have hired 18 former employees of J. Crew...