Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third Philippine foreign service official to resign his post within the last month to protest the Marcos regime. Corsino said yesterday he had to step down because "in conscience, I could not envision myself serving under Marcos's regime" and because he and others want to give moral strength to Aquino supporters...
...villages. Although the Philippine government says the figure is only 5%, it concedes that Communist insurgents now operate in 60 of the country's 74 provinces. They are a strong presence throughout the central island of Negros and in most of resource-rich Mindanao. Estimates of regular N.P.A. troop strength range from the Philippine military's count of 12,500 to Washington's 16,500 and the Communists' own claim of 20,000. Although the 230,000-strong Philippine armed forces enjoy an overwhelming numerical edge, their resources are stretched thin as they attempt to combat insurgents in 59 separate...
...seat Illusion Theater in Minneapolis), the company has proved especially shrewd. The show displays both the adaptability of Arena's theater-in-the-round space-- actors rise through the floor and almost to the ceiling, musicians are suspended in a metal-mesh box above the stage--and the strength of its newly expanded ensemble. Stanley Anderson is by turns uproarious, winsome and infuriating as the despicable Lord Are. Casey Biggs and Kim Staunton bring dignity and slow- dawning horror to the doomed servant Bob and his wife. And Tom Hewitt excels as the lord's other footman, as defiant...
...Bourbeau's line gives us added strength," Cleary said. "It's nice to have a group that can score like that...
Barakett has lost 15 pounds during the course of the season. But despite the abundance of exercise he gets playing hockey, he continues to work out in the weightroom after practice, building strength to fight off defensemen who would rather see him groveling on the ice than grooving shots into the back of the wines...