Word: pers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stuck faithfully to the eternal Communist verities and pulled off a hat trick. Under one of the most authoritarian systems in the Warsaw Pact and with a rigid, centrally planned economy to match, East Germany boasts the most powerful industrial base, the highest standard of living and the most per capita exports to the West of any nation in the East bloc. Declared Honecker, 76, in a speech to party leaders that implicitly rejected any reform-minded changes in his winning formula: "If one finds that one has embarked on a course that is right, then one should continue along...
...shops could count on daily deliveries of fresh flowers. And repair shops could often get same-day emergency shipments of spare parts. Although the town's cooperative grain elevator still has access to a working railroad spur, weeds surround the tracks. Reason: the Kyle railroad has added a $750- per-car surcharge to the standard rate, forcing the cooperative to haul its grain 17 miles by truck to a main railroad line...
Neither the flurry of savings and investment nor the increase in revenues predicted by supply-siders ever materialized. Net domestic savings available for investment averaged only 1.9 percent of GNP under Reagan, compared to 7 percent during the 1970s. Real fixed investment by corporations increased by 2.6 percent per year under Reagan, compared to 7.1 percent under Jimmy Carter. As for revenues, they plummeted by 10 percent--$66 billion...
...agent wants to send in binary code by making minute changes in the speed or the order in which the "bits" of other, entirely innocent messages are transmitted. According to Walker, covert channels have been found that are capable of carrying as much as 1 million bits of information per second. Walker and other experts say they know of no cases in which U.S. covert channels were actually used...
...fatal disorder, and thus keep it from passing to future generations, it will be criminal not to do so. As director of the Human Genome Project, James Watson contends that the research has a crucial humanitarian mission. Says he: "The object should not be to get genetic information per se, but to improve life through genetic information...