Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recall came barely six weeks after a 23-year-old woman from Westchester County, N.Y., died of cyanide poisoning after taking an Extra-Strength Tylenol capsule. In 1982 seven people died from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules, but it was the most recent death that persuaded Johnson & Johnson to stop making capsules altogether and to reissue the remedy in a tamper-resistant "caplet" form. Whether SmithKline will also abandon capsules was not clear. Unlike Tylenol, the SmithKline products are "time-release" medicines, which break down slowly and work best in capsule form. Besides, Contac accounts for some $50 million in SmithKline...
...diplomacy. We've made ten attempts to negotiate with them. But when have we ever seen a Communist totalitarian government voluntarily give up their power and say, "Well, O.K., we want to have more democracy"? We haven't. Diplomacy must have behind it strength. The Sandinistas are not going to agree to all the things that Contadora has been asking of them unless they feel the pressure of the contras...
...strength of the contras. The Sandinistas felt pressured before 1984 and the contras were doing very well. But in 1984, the Congress shut off our ability to help. From then on, the contras have been shrinking in size...
...think it's very important for young people to feel involved in a community," Marquand adds. "I think if you expect of people strength, you'll find strength...
...center of the debate is Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez Marquez, who swept into office in 1982 partly on the strength of his call for a referendum on NATO, which Spain had joined only a few months before in an effort to move closer to the rest of Europe and assure the safety of its fragile democracy. The Socialist campaign took advantage of some strong anti- American feeling, which is a legacy of U.S. backing for General Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. The U.S. has had military bases in Spain since...