Word: reach
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...political disciple of the late Panamanian President Arnulfo Arias, ran a spirited campaign in the three months before the May 7 voting. Washington funneled some $10 million in campaign funds to the opposition, evidently hoping that if Endara and his running mates won, Noriega would be forced to reach an accommodation with them. As Panamanians turned out in large numbers to cast their ballots, Endara had reason to be confident: polls showed he was favored over Duque by at least 2 to 1 and perhaps by as much as 3 to 1. But Noriega apparently deluded himself into believing that...
EVERYBODY'S BABY: THE RESCUE OF JESSICA MCCLURE (ABC, May 21, 9 p.m. EDT). Her Texas neighbors quarreled over the TV rights, but the story of 18-month-old Jessica's ordeal in a well was bound to reach the screen, come hell or high water. Beau Bridges and Patty Duke co-star in the docudrama...
This may make it unrealistic to expect top appointees to spearhead a women's agenda. By the time women reach the top, they may have become so inured to the power games required to succeed that any uniqueness may have been suppressed long...
Confronted by the high cost of research, expiring patents and the explosive growth of generic drugs, many pharmaceutical companies will step up efforts to broaden their global reach through mergers or cooperative ventures. But such pressures were few in 1896, when Hoffmann-La Roche was formed in Basel and began producing a cough syrup called Sirolin. The company prospered at first but then almost went broke during World War I because one of its important markets was revolution-torn Russia. Fearing a Nazi invasion in the 1930s, Hoffmann-La Roche created a twin Canadian-based company called Sapac...
...Washington sketchs it, Noriega's supporters will resort to such blatant electoral fraud that Panamanians will take to the streets in furious protest, sparking a brutish response from the Panama Defense Forces. The international outcry will deepen Panama's diplomatic isolation, and eventually the economic and political erosion will reach such dire proportions that the military will abandon Noriega. And then? "We'll let things collapse of their own weight," says a senior Administration official...