Word: pullback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...restraints like so much prickly underbrush on the President's ranch. The expense of complying with federal regulations, Reagan claimed, had cost Americans between $50 billion and $150 billion a year. After only ten days in office, he put a freeze on more than 170 pending regulations. A drastic pullback of Government involvement in business followed, especially in federal attempts to control prices and markets. How successful was the correction? Consider four industries that have been deregulated by Congress and Administrative action...
...start building nuclear weapons. Relations between the longtime rivals on the subcontinent are already tense. Last week, following an angry standoff involving some 370,000 Indian and Pakistani troops that began in January, the two nations' forces began withdrawing from the Rajasthan sector of the border, continuing a pullback agreement worked out late last month. But the incident has left both sides edgy...
...Africa, they are now treated as aliens who must apply for residence and work permits whenever they move. Although the government promised not to enforce these alien requirements while negotiations over dual citizenship continue, it could do so at any time. The white-owned newspaper Business Day protested this pullback from reform, declaring, "Those gullible folk who took President Botha at his word and gave reform a chance have been tricked...
...force. Gorbachev's list also included an armored regiment not suited for the mountainous terrain where most of the fighting is taking place. In Islamabad, Resistance Leader Sibghatullah Mujaddadi asked, "How many years will it take for the withdrawal of all the 120,000 Soviet troops if pullback of 8,000 is going to take six months...
...foray into Angola, General Constand Viljoen, commander of the South African defense forces, insisted that it had been mounted in response to increased "abductions, intimidation and sabotage" by SWAPO. That explanation failed to satisfy Washington, which called for an immediate pullback. After meeting in the White House with Samora M. Machel, the visiting leader of Mozambique, President Reagan also denounced South Africa's actions in that country. Viljoen eventually announced that his troops had disrupted SWAPO supply lines and would pull out of Angola over the weekend...