Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Historical experience lends appeasement little credence. However it does not follow that blunt demonstrations of force invariably prove more persuasive. Allied resistance, when it came, did not cause Adolf Hitler to retreat. Years later, demonstrated U.S. resolve did not stem the tide in Southeast Asia. The decisiveness of conventional force rested on its material effect, not its deterrent quality...
...looms up out of the cactus and tumbleweed like a vast tombstone: a sprawling airplane hangar, 60,000 sq. ft., large enough to house a 747, edging up to the shimmering tarmac of a remote airfield in the Arizona desert, 90 miles southeast of Phoenix. On a wall within is a 4 ft.-by-3 ft. plaque that reads "George Arntzen Doole (1909-1985). Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Directors of Air America Inc., Air Asia Company Limited, Civil Air Transport Company Limited." The plaque is the only memorial to a man who created and ran what was once...
...Small enterprises have been playing an important role in economic development in Southeast Asia," said Xu Chi He, Director of the Institute of National Economy in the Peoples' Republic of China...
...struggling farmers have boosted their crops of opium poppies and marijuana plants. U.S. consumer demand for their output has increased as well. Mexico's illicit heroin- refining labs have upgraded their equipment so that their product, previously a crude substance dubbed "Mexican brown," now competes with purer varieties from Southeast Asia. At the same time, Mexico's marijuana has made a comeback with bargain-minded smokers; it costs only $100 or less an ounce on the street, compared with $200 for California's superpotent sinsemilla...
...same speech, Aquino referred to the Philippines as the "basket case of Southeast Asia," an unflattering but all-too-accurate reference to the economic wasteland she has inherited. The Philippines' foreign debt exceeds $27 billion. The annual interest payment alone--about $1.7 billion--amounts to a third of export earnings. In 1985 the growth rate plunged to negative 3.5%, while per capita income declined to about $600 a year, no higher in real terms than it was in 1972. Almost half of the nation's 21 million workers are unemployed at least part of the year. One of the priorities...