Word: mili
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fall far behind the West's steady technological innovation. In some cases, designers have tried to keep up with Western models. The MiG-23, for example, has the "swing-wing" look of the U.S. F-111. The need to adapt foreign ideas and keep up technologically with foreign mili tary equipment has introduced a capitalist-like competitiveness to military production that is woefully lacking in the domestic economy, where shoddy goods do not face the test of the marketplace. As a leading Soviet economist, Academician Vadim Trapeznikov says, "One of the mainsprings of progress is the comparison...
...worst of all, we were on the brink of economic collapse." Then, in his prepared remarks, he proudly ticked off the accomplishments of three years: a stronger mili tary; lower inflation, taxes and interest rates; falling unemployment...
...Damascus conferring with Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam. Little was accomplished, but the fact that the session was held at all was an achievement of sorts. In the streets of the capital, 50,000 Syrians rallied to praise President Hafez Assad and to demonstrate against U.S. mili military power...
Last week, the Parker Hill Family Youth Development Council placed special drop-off boxes in the Medical School area where Harvard students and employees can make donations of food, clothing and toys, said Mili Roca, director of the council...
...fighting by no means ended the conflict be tween the Federal Government and the U.S. press over the mili tary's refusal to let reporters cover the invasion. Complained the American Society of Newspaper Editors, in a telegram to Defense Secretary Weinberger: "We object to the Defense Department's failure to honor the long tradition of on-the-scene coverage of American military operations...