Word: regains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Honda's rapid acceleration is significant not only for buyers of foreign cars but for the domestic U.S. auto industry, which is expected to produce about 8.7 million cars this year. At a time when American auto firms are fighting hard to regain ground lost earlier to Japanese and other foreign manufacturers, Honda has established a strong U.S. foothold with its shrewd decision in 1977 to build an assembly plant in Marysville, Ohio. Honda's expansion is also a sign that Japanese manufacturers are gearing up their competitive engines to maintain and enlarge their market share...
...last week's forum discussed the need to provide jobs, experiment with workfare initiatives and find ways to shape Government programs so that they encourage, rather than discourage, self-help among the underclass. But as Moynihan noted, "We are grievously short of specific ideas." For the Democrats to regain the initiative on what has traditionally been one of their most important issues, the quest to conquer the problems of poverty in America, they will have to find ways to sharpen the ideas that they grappled with in New York City...
Although it is likely that Cuomo would appeal to voters in the urban areas of the Northeast and Midwest, traditional Democratic power bases, both his style and his message may play less well in the South and the Sunbelt, regions that are critical if the party hopes to regain the presidency. Cuomo is still largely unknown in the South and West, to party activists as well as voters...
...worth in selflessness. The gurus and cult leaders are hard up for new recruits these days; the divorce rate appears even to have slipped a little. Though church attendance rates have not increased noticeably, some Baby Boomers speak of a "new spiritualism" and grope, often privately and quietly, to regain the faith they lost in the secular '60s and '70s. In the '80s the Baby Boomers are not exactly generating a new Baby Boom of their own--the total fertility rate remains a low 1.8 births per woman. But because of the sheer number of Boomers who have finally decided...
...great power," is that its policy is guided by principles of freedom and democracy. He drew on personal experiences when he was an advisor to the Lebanese president Amin Gemayel (1982-84) to prove that the American officials whom he got to know personally worked tirelessly to help Lebanon regain its sovereignty and freedom from the occupying regional powers. For that, Dr. Haddad and most Lebanese are very grateful...