Word: rebuilds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Older Japanese need all the help they can get to break their stubborn devotion to work, a legacy of the postwar struggle to rebuild the economy. For younger people, untouched by those hard times, taking time off is easier. Yoshiko Murata, 23, who works in public affairs at Toyota, last year took four vacation trips, two each to Europe and Hawaii. Last May she went to Bali and loved it. "My friends and I were reluctant to leave," recalls Murata, "but we said, 'Let's work hard so we can come back again.' " Her boss, Kimiaki Kuroki, 42, has taken...
...Tehran government, which originally organized and subsidized Lebanon's Hizballah, had already been leaning westward, however grudgingly. President Hashemi Rafsanjani wants increased trade, especially from Europe, to help rebuild an economy destroyed by eight years of war with Iraq. By turning away from radicals abroad, he can also undercut his extremist domestic rival, Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, Hizballah's godfather...
...Hashemi Rafsanjani, meanwhile, had his own reasons for promoting the release of Western hostages. The pragmatic Rafsanjani regards the hostages as relics of an era no longer relevant to his country's problems. Iran, which wields much more influence than Hizballah, desperately needs Western credits, trade and technology to rebuild after its devastating eight-year war with Iraq, which ended in 1988. Rafsanjani, who knows improved relations with the West hinge on the happy resolution of the hostage drama, undoubtedly ordered or at least pressed for the release of McCarthy and Tracy. He may also have acted out of fear...
Given the current low prices, a House committee figured it would not be unduly burdensome to ask drivers for an extra nickel a gallon in federal gasoline taxes to help rebuild America's deteriorating roads and bridges. Wrong. When the committee approved the 5 cents increase last week, the Bush Administration vowed to block...
Most impressive, in contrast to the U.S., has been the government's overhauling of the national infrastructure. In the 1970s, pressured by the oil embargo and fearful of falling far behind its German neighbor, France decided ( to rebuild its road and rail network, update the telecommunications system and revolutionize its power-generating structure. Those projects alone account for $250 billion in long-term investment...