Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possibility of a hardliner backlash notwithstanding, one can see that the Soviets have been the short-run losers of the Cold War. In a war of economic attrition they could not keep pace with the rival U.S. and they are now reconsidering the wisdom of continuing their post-war policies...
Congress and President Bush both agree that the $3.35-an-hour minimum wage, which has not been raised since 1981, needs a boost. But a conflict is brewing over just how far to hike it. Had the wage kept pace with inflation, it would stand at $4.46 an hour today. Bush has threatened to veto any bill that provides a base rate of more than $4.25. Last week the House passed a measure that would gradually increase the wage to $4.55 by 1992. The Senate, scheduled to take up the issue next week, is unlikely to adopt a rate...
...Baker's Middle East strategy includes avoiding a sense of urgency, the , U.S. must step up the pace in Central America, where events threaten to outrun the Administration's ability to deal with them. In Nicaragua the Sandinistas have cried "peace" just cleverly enough to convince the Central American Presidents that the contras, who number about 11,000, should be dislodged from Honduras and disbanded. Although the rebels are pretty well finished as a fighting force, Bush and Baker want to keep them in place and continue supplying them with food, clothing and medical supplies until the Nicaraguan elections, which...
Soon to trade his beat for London, Banta is sure to keep following the dizzying developments in Eastern Europe. "The pace of change has been extraordinary," says Banta. "Three years ago, Hungarians would laugh bitterly at the notion of free elections. Today they're about to have them." But such extraordinary change has not occurred everywhere. As the kindly Rumanian passport official put it, "I hope we see you again -- if you can come back...
...added that the pace of reform in the Soviet Union remains slow. "It's one thing to proclaim a set of new ideas--it's quite another to transform them into a new set of textbooks," Nikandrov said...