Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Abdnor, Republicans in the Senate's Class of '80 have been struggling in their re-election bouts. G.O.P. incumbents have been unable to establish solid leads in Washington, Idaho and North Dakota. Hawkins and Chavez trail in their races. In his campaign to replace the retiring Paul Laxalt, Nevada Republican Hopeful Jim Santini is locked in a dead heat with Democratic Congressman Harry Reid. Several contests in which Republican incumbents seemed secure -- North Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin -- have narrowed in recent weeks, renewing hope for Democratic challengers. But some Democrats are also shaky: in addition to California, with Cranston...
...hassled by the protests and the divestment campaigns," says Stephen Blank, senior associate at New York's Multinational Strategies consulting firm. "This is not the kind of publicity they want." Some firms might have endured the hassle factor if they could have pointed to their South African operations as solid profit centers. But fewer and fewer have been able to do so. GM has lost money in South Africa since 1982, and IBM, while profitable, has been losing market share to Japanese computer makers. Last week the U.S. consulate in Johannesburg released a Commerce Department economic report prepared for American...
...terrorist tracks. Circumstantial evidence could be found of Syrian links to dozens of actions, including the bombing of a TWA plane over Greece last April, attacks at the Vienna and Rome airports last December and the bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut in October 1983. But solid proof has been hard to come by, which has allowed Assad to assert his innocence. Just three weeks ago, in an interview with TIME editors, he insisted that "no terrorist acts are carried out from Syria, by Syrians or others...
...someone of his age, he's incredible," said Salem Coach Grant Longley, 45, who needed players after four former team members were knocked out of competition by poor grades. Sweeney, studying French and piano, and majoring in physical education so he can eventually return to coaching, is a solid B student. BOSTON COLLEGE...
After securing primacy, the Crimson played a solid defense. Harvard consistently beat Yale to the ball and and stole the ball away from the slow-moving Elis...