Word: nationals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis promises more Government money for education, worker training and the rebuilding of the nation's decaying highways, bridges and transit systems. He calls for a modest $500 million Fund to Rebuild America to provide Government grants for regional economic development. Like Bush, Dukakis glosses over the issue of where the money would come from. He rails against big mergers as anticompetitive, chiding former Attorney General Edwin Meese for not knowing the "difference between antitrust and antifreeze." Yet many trade experts believe that a relaxation of antitrust rules is necessary to allow U.S. companies to combine forces against foreign competition...
...should be expanded to include all disadvantaged children. Washington should give special grants to universities to subsidize increased salaries for science and engineering professors and scholarships to attract students into those fields. Moreover, the Government needs to launch a ten- year program to refurbish the research labs at the nation's universities. That job would cost an estimated $10 billion...
...even money seemed to matter. One TV network replaced a popular comedy show with a commercial-free program on baby elephants. The city of Nagoya dutifully passed up an anticipated $35 million windfall when it called off a grand celebration for its pennant-winning baseball team. Only the nation's flagmakers were cashing in. "I'm not supposed to feel happy, but our sales have zoomed more than tenfold," said Makoto Kobayashi, president of Hinomaruya, a Tokyo flag wholesaler...
...diminutive, long-reigning Hirohito struggled valiantly behind the high walls of the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo, an emotional, almost atavistic nationalism swept the country. Nearly 4 million people signed their names in get-well registers. Although 60% of Japan's 123 million citizens were born after the 1947 constitution stripped the monarchy of divinity, the national vigil demonstrated that the monarchy still meant something more than the chrysanthemum crest on a ceremonial curtain. "The Emperor is the center of Japan's national psyche," said Seisuke Okuno, a 75-year-old Liberal Democratic member of parliament. That sentiment...
...Chebrikov's new job makes him a watchdog over the activities of the Soviet security forces, his position may have been strengthened. On the other hand, as the Central Committee's new law-and-order secretary, he must deliver on Politburo promises to turn the Soviet Union into a nation "governed by law." Otherwise, he could be trampled in the next leadership shuffle...