Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large corporations with interests in Latin America, like the Chase Manhattan Bank, United Brands and Occidental Petroleum. Meanwhile, former President Ford began speaking out on behalf of the treaties, and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger worked on key Senators. Together, they made it easier for moderate Republicans to resist the Reagan-led opposition. "If Kissinger had trucked this one," says one White House aide, "we would have been in serious trouble...
...question is: What will they do when they reach that frontier? One member of the Ethiopian junta told Wood: "I can assure you that Ethiopia is not going to invade Somalia." Nonetheless, the Somalis are fearful that the Ethiopians if they reconquer the Ogaden will not be able to resist the impulse to slice through northern Somalia...
...placed in long cylindrical ovens filled with extremely hot (about 2,000° F.) oxygen-containing gas or steam. In effect, the wafers are rusted-covered by a thin, electrically insulating layer of silicon dioxide that prevents short-circuiting. Then the wafers are coated with still another substance: the resist, a photographic-type emulsion sensitive only to ultraviolet (UV) light. (To prevent accidental exposure, clean rooms are generally bathed in UV-less yellow light.) Next, a tiny mask, scaled down photographically from a large drawing and imprinted with hundreds of identical patterns of one layer of the chip...
Whatever the reason for the transaction, some student observers said Harvard's back-door divestiture of the stock may well make it that much harder for the University to resist demands for stronger action against apartheid--including supporting share-holder resolutions calling for withdrawal of all U.S. corporations operating in South Africa...
...power derives from his control of the 7500-member Guardia National, a combination army and secret police force trained and equipped by the U.S. The campesinosand slum-dwellers of Managua have no weapons to combat this counter-insurgent force; and their collective poverty further weakens their ability to resist...