Word: rebuilding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mugabe's polished, conciliatory tone was in keeping with what he most wanted from his trip: money for his country. He estimated that Zimbabwe would need "something on the order of $1.5 billion in the immediate future" to rebuild its economy, and a total of $4 billion for redevelopment. At a luncheon of the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan's elegant Plaza Hotel, he said Zimbabwe would welcome investment by any U.S. company that allows some measure of local control, pays decent wages, permits unions and plows some of its earnings back into the host country. Promised Mugabe...
...Polish economy could afford to lower meat prices as the workers have asked, he made it clear that his own priorities are more political than economic. "We are aware of what we are demanding," he said. "We don't want to drown Poland. We want to rebuild her. I am willing to work for a plate of soup a day, but I must feel that I have the right to say something about the situation...
...fact, a great many politicians, including Ronald Reagan, are traveling up to Charlotte Street these days, claiming that Jimmy Carter reneged on his vow in 1977 to rebuild the South Bronx. None of the new visitors to the area need fear what the President might have feared three years ago?that a building would fall on his head?because almost all the buildings have fallen in the interim, and are now nicely disguised as two lawns of gray-yellow dust on either side of Charlotte Street. The dust is thicker than the ash from Mount St. Helens. It fills...
Part of Carter's plan to help the auto industry includes rescinding certain pollution regulations, relaxing standards for worker exposure to toxic materials, and easing up "on certain auto durability test requirements." Has it occurred to those who devised this plan that the way to build, or rebuild, an industry is to raise the quality of the product...
Community aid. The Administration will provide $50 million to help rebuild old plants in such cities as Mahwah, N.J., Flint, Mich., and Kokomo, Ind., that have been jarred by auto-plant closings...