Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were turned back, possibly to prevent any disruption of a party Congress this week. With the Soviet Union now encouraging the reforms that felled other hard-line rulers, the tyrannical Ceausescu last week turned to China for support in standing firm. The tide of reform is not likely to reach Bucharest so long as its despotic leader survives. Any Rumanian bold enough to speak out is beaten, harassed or imprisoned. Says Jane Ingham, a Rumanian specialist in England: "The regime is so oppressive that no opposition movement is able to exist...
Researchers reported the conclusive proof of deprenyl's effect on Parkinson's in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. In a study at 28 U.S. and Canadian medical centers involving 800 patients, investigators found that those given deprenyl took significantly more time to reach the point where they needed levodopa than did those not receiving the drug. Based on the results, the researchers project that patients on deprenyl can wait twice as long -- about a year -- before taking levodopa...
...reform our economies, we would just fall back in the trap. Whatever accords we reach ((with the lenders and international bodies)) would have to be conditioned on adjustments that we make in our own economic systems. We've got to be able to ensure that the resources generated from debt reduction and new financing are used according to very specific investment norms and according to economic procedures in line with our realities...
...year, in Venezuela we're going to have a dramatic drop, almost 10%, in our gross national product as a result of our adjustment measures. If we don't straighten out this situation, if we don't have the resources to confront this violent decline, the social situation will reach intolerable extremes. And it's not just us; all the countries of Latin America are suffering...
...affairs guidelines on auctions. For more than a year his team pored over Sotheby's and Christie's records, wrestling with such exotic-sounding practices as "bidding off the chandelier" (announcing fictitious bids to drive up the price) and "buying in" (leaving a work unsold because it does not reach the seller's reserve price). By Sotheby's account, the investigators came up with nothing after sifting through thousands of documents...