Word: maker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years to land the contract to upgrade the Saudi navy, beating out competitive bids by the British and Italians. France argues that it provides Third World customers with an alternative to superpower suppliers. "Nations can buy from us and still maintain their independence," says an official of the missile maker Matra, which exports 75% of its production...
ANWAR EL-SADAT died surrounded by the weapons that made his country the most powerful of Arab nations. Yet his assassins were attacking Sadat the peace-maker, not Sadat the war-monger. In this and many other ironies of his life, Sadat was a paradox, a man to befriend you one day only to abandon you the next. Indeed, the late Egyptian ruler once flirted with Hitler's Germany, then denounced it; supported Nasser, then disowned him; courted the Soviet Union, then rejected it; and waged war on Israel only to then embrace it in conciliation. Unstable as this course...
...ironically, but not illogically, Egypt made a stride toward peace by waging war. A period of shuttle diplomacy followed, with then-Secretary of State Kissinger working out a disengagement agreement between Egypt and Israel. It is probably then that Sadat saw his ultimate role as that of the peace-maker...
...million) sells some 200 different software packages through retail stores and catalogues. The company, which publishes only programs written by freelance authors, was founded in 1977 by Anthony Gold, 35, a former Citibank officer. Among its offerings are the spelling corrector MicroSpell and the expense account helpmate T-Maker...
...fact, the takeovers will probably push France into deeper trouble. The country's economy is already suffering from anemic growth, 7.7% unemployment and sagging investment. Nationalizing the banks-and 32 large industrial enterprises, including the Dassault airplane manufacturing company and the Saint-Gobain-Pont-à-Mousson fiber-glass maker-will almost certainly deepen the existing slump by making businessmen more wary of investing their money. Says J. Paul Horne, European economic analyst for the Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. investment firm: "The French private banking sector is all but gone. New private investment in France has been virtually frozen...