Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perseverance of so diverse a group. But a psychological insight is provided by Vachirin Chea, 27, a survivor of the Cambodian death camps who has prospered in banking and real estate in Lowell, Mass. "I have to be an American now," he says. "But I get my strength from being Cambodian. If I had been raised here in America, I would not have that kind of strength. All that suffering, the anger in me, is what keeps me going...
...people were coming that Alvarado had to move his congregation to a small commercial building, and then to a large house, where some 80 worshipers now regularly attend his meetings. These two-hour gatherings feature testimonies, rousing hymns accompanied by electric guitar, and high-energy sermons ("The Lord gives strength to the weak...
...addition, "bone responds to what we do," says Anthropologist Stephanie Damadio of the Smithsonian Institution. A clarinetist's jaw will sometimes suggest his profession or a waitress's developed arm strength may be evident in the bone...
...between free traders in the Commerce Department and Pentagon officials appalled by high-tech transfer has been resolved by the Reagan Administration in favor of tougher export controls. The military won the right to review export licenses, and has blocked sales like the shipment of machinery to test concrete strength to the Soviets, on the grounds that the equipment could be used to help harden missile silos. Since 1981 the Customs Service's Operation Exodus has stopped at the docks some 4,000 illegal shipments abroad, including crates destined for the Soviet Union full of C-130 transport aircraft parts...
...West Bank and Gaza Strip because it is those territories that would be directly affected. Israel's only stipulation: that the Palestinian delegates not be members of the P.L.O. Rabin sounded somewhat optimistic about settlement prospects when, after assessing the changed state of the Muslim world and the reduced strength of the P.L.O., he concluded, "If there is a time when it can be done, it is now." He added, however, "I hope that the present excitement that exists in certain circles in Washington will not prove to have no basis...