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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America's 7 million workplaces. Indeed, Labor Department statistics suggest that workplace safety has improved substantially since OSHA was created in 1970. The rate of job-related illnesses and injuries declined from 11 per 100 full- time workers in 1973 to 7.6 per 100 in 1983. But then progress seemed to stall. The rate was back up to 7.9 per 100 full-time workers...
...Jose Napoleon Duarte and the country's leftist guerrillas failed to occur, aborted by Duarte's demand that the rebels first lay down their arms. Yet all hope was not lost. Leaders of the guerrilla coalition met with Arias for the second time in two weeks. "We've made progress toward a dialogue," said Guillermo Ungo, one of the rebels' political leaders, after the session. "I hope we can meet with President Duarte by the end of the month...
...this progress? It would be cynical to think so. Rather, it is the product of developers' eagerness to cash in on the local economic boom. More than ever, the Square is a hot property. Not only is it in a prosperous intellectual and technological center, but it also draws legions of tourists and well-heeled students each year. No wonder property values have reached the stratosphere...
...downright warm compared with his performance during twelve hours of meetings with his guest. Indeed, only once during the trip could the Chancellor force himself to refer to East Germany by its official name, the German Democratic Republic. Usually he called it "your place." Far from dwelling on the progress achieved over the years in relations between the two countries, Kohl launched into a blistering attack on Honecker's regime, denouncing it for everything from holding political prisoners to enforcing a shoot-to-kill order against East German citizens who try to flee to the West. Such policies, he said...
...favors an INF-only deal as a "firebreak" that will satisfy congressional yearning for arms control while leaving SDI intact. Paul Nitze, special adviser to Shultz and Reagan on arms control, is concerned that an INF-only deal could lead to a Soviet strategic buildup if there is no progress in START. The only way to break the deadlock in START, he feels, is an agreement spelling out which SDI experiments would be allowed under the Antiballistic Missile Treaty...