Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry contracts, many big companies are getting out of the business. More than 60 defense operations have been put on the block in the past two months. Other firms are building up cash reserves against an uncertain future by paring back their defense ventures. Minneapolis-based Honeywell, the leading supplier of lightweight torpedoes to the U.S. Navy, has sold three military electronics and communications subsidiaries since last August, and is seeking to shed a fourth. In what has become a military garage sale, bargains aplenty can be found. David Smith, a senior vice president at the Raymond James & Associates brokerage...
...conceivable that Mexico could be a threat to the U.S. -- a Mexico in chaos, a Mexico where the basic institutions that have governed the country in the past 60 years begin to unravel, where you have a situation like the one you had in Venezuela last February ((riots broke out in response to austerity measures)). I don't think this is likely. But it's not something you can discard entirely. There is a limit to how much people can take. That limit is being approached now, too quickly. I know for a fact, and I think every Mexican knows...
...critical point. Never has the U.S. role in Mexico been so important to Mexico. Many of the solutions to Mexico's problems lie in Washington. This is particularly the case with regard to debt. The U.S. has had the luxury over the past 60 years, as a superpower, of not having to worry about its borders, either north or south. In the case of Mexico that is no longer true -- not because the Soviet Union is establishing a beachhead in Veracruz but because in order to maintain the type of relationship with Mexico that the U.S. has had over...
...roads will top last year's by as much as 10%. Roadside wax museums, water slides and reptile farms abound. Yet with some advance mapwork, visitors can reach well beyond familiar kitsch to centennial exhibits that speak directly to the westward movement and the nation's astonishingly recent past...
...recommend the place ) to their friends, especially for the Indian tacos, but Green, whose daughter is married to a Sioux, professes puzzlement at the transatlantic accolade. She is also mysterious about her secret fry-bread recipe, which includes the root vegetable tinpsila. But on only two days in the past ten years has no one come to call at the WoodenKnife. "Some local people have a prejudice against Indian food," she notes dryly, standing against the spectacular Badlands moonscape that she describes as "my million-dollar view." She adds, "Not everybody, of course. But they think Indian food has puppies...