Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even though his election plans were disrupted, Noriega remained in control of Panama. But his rule is no longer as absolute as it was a week ago. The elections bestowed a certain legitimacy on the opposition and forced Noriega to consult more frequently than usual with the military, the key to his power. Noriega may also be looking over his shoulder more often at rank-and-file members of the PDF , as the general's election analysts concede that significant numbers of uniformed voters chose Endara over Duque. Even Panama's highly influential Roman Catholic Church, which had remained silent...
...enhance the life expectancy of fetuses being carried by 150 expectant mothers? To most Americans, the either/or aspect of the question is morally repugnant -- surely the leader of the democratic capitalist world can afford both. Yet a growing number of health experts argue that the U.S., in fact, no longer has the financial resources to provide unlimited medical treatment for all those who need it. The only solution, they say, is rationing health care...
...experts who favor rationing as a solution note that the reality of it is not new. In 1987 Oregon decided that it would no longer pay for organ transplants for Medicaid patients, even as the legislature added $5 million to the state budget for prenatal care. Many doctors readily admit that applicants for new high-tech operations have to pass a "green screen" or "wallet biopsy" -- meaning those who can pay get first crack at the operations...
...Gromyko, he can be just as tough as his predecessor. It was Shevardnadze, after all, who forced an unhappy President Najibullah to accept the fact that the Soviets were leaving Afghanistan. In February he told Oliver Tambo, leader of the African National Congress, that the Soviet Union would no longer support the A.N.C.'s "war of national liberation" in southern Africa. And, when necessary, Shevardnadze will blatantly lie, as British officials believe he did when he told Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe last month that the Soviet Union possessed only a fraction of the chemical weapons that the West believes...
...Dongeui University incident may give new thrust to conservative demands for a clampdown on antigovernment activities. At the least, the deaths have forced Koreans to re-examine how their budding democracy is faring. In a rare front-page editorial, the moderate daily newspaper Chosun Ilbo exhorted, "We can no longer let things go this way. The current disorder in society seems to be accelerating a doomsday for the nation...