Word: regains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jury tampering in 1967, Hoffa had been in the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., with Allen, who was serving a ten-year sentence for bank robbery. Allen claimed that Hoffa had asked him to kill Fitzsimmons because the new Teamsters president would not step aside and let Hoffa regain control of the union after being released from prison. Insisted Allen: "I was supposed to kill Frank Fitzsimmons right here in the Teamsters' parking lot [in Washington...
Xerox was one of the first companies to develop a local network system, Ethernet, which was announced in 1979 after six years of research. The firm has been hurt in recent years by slumping copier sales, but it hopes that Ethernet will help it regain its prominent position in office equipment. Xerox encouraged Digital Equipment Corp. to make computers that can run on its system, and has sold licenses for a nominal $1,000 to some 100 other companies to build compatible equipment. Says John Shoch, deputy general manager of office systems: "We don't sell Ethernet. We sell...
...course, America must be defended. It may regain its prosperity and exercise productive power in the world. Nor will social spending alone cure the nation's ills...
...transcends whatever economic and security understandings may be reached in Versailles and Bonn. It offers Reagan the chance to conduct for the first time diplomacy on a grand scale, to exert the natural leadership of the American presidency within the Atlantic Alliance, and to continue his efforts to regain from the Soviets the propaganda initiative on disarmament. The ambitious goal: to show that there is still a fundamental unity among America, Western Europe and Japan that transcends the well-publicized strains within the alliance...
...supply vessel, the Atlantic Conveyor, disabled and abandoned. The Conveyor was hit by the same type of Exocet missile that sank the British destroyer H.M.S. Sheffield four weeks ago. Including another frigate, H.M.S. Ardent, sunk on May 22, Britain said it had lost five ships in the struggle to regain the islands, but Argentina claimed Royal Navy losses were higher than that...