Word: ruinous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostile to either government, the accord may mark the end of nearly a decade of increasing enmity between the two neighboring countries, each of which has accused the other of encouraging attacks by insurgent groups. Moreover, as Machel and Botha shook hands, there were indications that after decades of ruinous skirmishing between white-ruled South Africa and black nations close by, winds of peace were sweeping through the rest of the region as well...
...author calls the arms race a ruinous drain on U.S. resources that can never be won because each side will spend whatever it takes to keep up with the other. "We can no longer consider the nuclear arms race to be an unfortunate fact of life," he writes. "We must be as objective, pragmatic, flexible and unafraid of change as the decision makers who simply stopped making the Edsel." It is still to be seen, however, whether business executives will become the trim tab Willens wants...
...Copernican view of the heavens should be treated as no more than a hypothesis. For a while the scientist heeded that advice. But when an old friend, Maffeo Cardinal Barberini, became Pope Urban VIII in 1623, Galileo felt confident enough to write his most controversial and, ultimately, self-ruinous work: Dialogue on the Two Great World Systems...
...Hitachi, Toshiba and Sony's old nemesis Matsushita, are planning to produce their own 8-mm machines. In the past week alone, RCA and General Electric both jumped into the 8-mm market. Sony must make certain that the upcoming 8-mm Shootout does not become a ruinous reprise of the Beta battle. -By Michael Moritz...
Alfonsin will need all the support he can muster to extricate Argentina from its political and economic quagmire. On the eve of the inauguration, after 2½ years of self-imposed exile in Spain, where she had fled following a ruinous term as President, Juan Perón's widow Isabel flew into Buenos Aires as Alfonsin's guest at the ceremony. Whether Isabelita plans to lead a regrouping of the ragged Peronist ranks is unclear, but if she assumes a major role in the party, it could spark bitter feuding between her supporters and foes...