Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...streams of newcomers including policemen and even Buddhist monks, changed from tragic to almost festive. A miracle was revealing itself in the center of this ancient empire, a truth which had been buried so deep and so long that it had almost been forgotten: the miracle is their own strength. It is their own strength that the Chinese people are rediscovering right at this moment...
...which we will deliver to the Bonn mission at the United Nations. We're calling for the abolition of all short-range nuclear weapons, East and West, and we're also proposing reduction of Warsaw Pact and NATO forces, both nuclear and conventional, to 50% of NATO's present strength. That is a first step to a united and disarmed Europe. I'll be going to Brussels myself, joining European members of the peace movement...
...Deng Xiaoping's decade of pragmatic reform. In 1981 all P.L.A. members were required to take a special pledge of loyalty to the party, the government and Deng's modernization program. To save money and to lessen tensions with the Soviet Union, the P.L.A. was trimmed from a peak strength of 4.5 million to its present level of 3.2 million. The increasing prosperity of farm life means that the army has been forced to enlist more urban youth, who are more inclined to question orders. Despite such lures as family benefits and monthly bonuses, local officials often find it difficult...
...live for more than four months as part of an experiment aimed at examining how the stresses of long-term isolation could affect space $ travel. Pioneer Frontier Explorations, an Italian research foundation, had selected Follini, one of 20 volunteers for the assignment, because she was judged to have inner strength and stamina. For 131 days she dwelled alone in a 20-ft. by 12-ft. Plexiglas module sealed 30 ft. under the surface, without sunlight or any other way of measuring time. Last week she emerged aboveground on schedule. But by her calculations it was only mid-March...
...uncodified by treaty are easy to turn around, as are intentions generally. I'm routinely criticized for a supposedly overly simplistic insistence on assessing capabilities rather than intentions. Well, we hope Gorbachev means what he says, but if he changes his mind and we have reduced our own military strength on the basis of a rhetoric of intentions when his capabilities haven't really changed much at all, then we could be in big trouble fast...