Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United States is facing a similar crisis in El Salvador. Last year American aid to El Salvador doubled that nation's budget. And extraordinarily generous support for the Salvadoran military, besides encouraging corruption and removing any high-level army incentive to end the war, sends a message to all Salvadorans--left, center and right--that El Salvador is not in charge of its own policies...
...remarkable that with all her ability in the sprints, she is able to step up and compete in the 800 at that level," 400-meter runner John Mee said...
This week the Air Transport Association, the airlines' trade group, is expected to recommend some 200 changes in federal regulations that govern maintenance. One especially significant proposal: to remove airliners from service after a specified level of wear and tear, perhaps 80,000 cycles, and rebuild the planes from the wheels up. Says A.T.A. Vice President William Jackman: "It's a first step in a series of safety measures . . . a major effort by the airlines and planemakers to assure the airworthiness of passenger aircraft." With planes falling to pieces in the sky, passengers will appreciate that...
Nonetheless, the separate perceptions that divide the White House and the Fed remained glaringly obvious. On the day before the CPI figure was released, Greenspan told Congress that "the current level of inflation, let alone an increase, is not acceptable." But on the same day, Michael Boskin, chairman of Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, testified, "I do not yet see a serious increase in the underlying inflation rate." Boskin edged a bit closer to the Fed chairman by adding that if prices do begin soaring, the Administration will "take quick action" and "support a policy that avoids an acceleration...
...dramatic moments of Shevardnadze's trip were saved for his 2 1/2- hour meeting with Arens. Building on a flirtation that began several years ago, the two Foreign Ministers made history by holding their meeting on Arab soil. They pledged to continue their bilateral courtship at a high diplomatic level, though they accomplished nothing concrete that would further the peace process. On specifics, they had little in common. Shevardnadze pressed Arens to drop Israel's opposition to an international peace conference and talk to the P.L.O. Arens replied by urging Shevardnadze to sign on to Jerusalem's preference for direct...