Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stressed his longtime insistence that any talks be limited to the rebels' participation in future elections, thus precluding all discussion of "power sharing." The President has also demanded that the insurgents first give up their weapons. Aware that the guerrillas fear they will be massacred if they lay down their arms, Duarte hopes to gain enough control over the security forces so that he can guarantee safety. If the rebels are sincere about peace, Duarte says, then they should take part in the Assembly elections scheduled for next March. "The only thing they have...
...November 1978 the superior firepower of the Soviet-backed government began to tell. Whole blocks of houses had been destroyed, the fields lay fallow and 220 residents were dead. When word spread that an overpowering government assault was imminent, the villagers called a traditional council. "We decided that we all had to leave that very night and take our families to Pakistan," remembers Amin Jan, now a mujahedin commander...
...road grew more treacherous and the sky more turbulent. The trucks were abandoned, and the fugitives continued on foot. On the second night three children died of cold and exhaustion; the following dawn, as the weary procession reached the border, two pregnant women and a teen-age girl lay down and died. Nonetheless, the group was relatively fortunate: only a few hours after the villagers arrived safely in Pakistan, the first blizzard of the winter obscured the horizon. Dozens of people from neighboring villages who had left just one day later died in the driving snow...
Such misgivings have helped lay the hardest blows on makers of small machines. As the number of personal-computer companies grew from a handful five years ago to more than 180 today, competition became ferocious. Except for a few leaders, the firms are scrambling for shelf space in stores at a time when sales have hit an unexpected lull. Quips Fred Hoar, a former Apple executive and now vice president of Raychem, a specialty chemical company: "The personal-computer industry has reached a new chapter in its history: Chapter...
...assets of $817,000 and 1983 profits exceeding $242,000. The state-owned factory's success is the result of a new policy by the Chinese government that has given virtually unheard-of powers to managers in consumer-goods industries, including expanded rights to hire and fire, to lay down work rules and to award bonuses for good performance...