Word: partially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...internecine conflict with NCA pits high-sulfur coal producers in the East versus low-sulfur coal producers in the West. A partial solution to the acid rain problem is to increase use of low-sulfur coal, which creates less sulfur dioxide emission. But high-sulfur coal producers argue that such a move will cost them more than 40,000 mining jobs, and nearly four times that number in related fields...
...York Times and The Washington Post, who obtained copies of the USIA blacklist from sources in Washington, have been printing partial lists of names since last week...
...this question. In particular, it made white South Africa notice that in what might be the world's most prestigious university, in the ultimate brain trust of the most powerful country on Earth, the president of that university was defending American investment in the South African economy. The partial victories of the divestiture movement and President Bok's voluminous and somewhat impassioned defense of continuing investment in companies doing business in South Africa raised the stakes of the divestiture movement...
...abandonment but as an embrace of Europe. It is a means of enlisting Europeans as full partners in the process of decision on which their safety as well as ours depends. For a son of Europe reared on the existing NATO orthodoxy, the very idea of even a partial redeployment is painful?all the more so after Lebanon. But we will not be fulfilling our obligations to the West if we fail to put forward an initiative to forestall the crisis that will otherwise confront us in much worse circumstances...
...protracted postmortem, Argentina's newly elected civilian President, Raúl Alfonsin, was trying to revive a civil and useful relationship with Britain. For weeks Alfonsin's government and that of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have been exchanging messages through Brazilian and Swiss intermediaries regarding a partial rapprochement and resumption of peaceful negotiations over the future of the Falklands. In January the British offered to resume air services between the two countries, to restore trade and financial dealings that were frozen as a result of the war, and to return Argentine war dead and allow bereaved Argentine...