Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deadlock that has existed since the Soviets walked out of arms-control talks in Geneva last year to protest the deployment of new NATO missiles in Europe. The shift will be one of tone, reflecting Reagan's confidence that the U.S. can now negotiate from a position of strength, thanks to its military buildup and economic recovery. Reagan planned to tell the nation that now there was less danger that "the Soviet leadership will underestimate our strength or question our resolve" and that the U.S. was "in its strongest position in years to establish a constructive and realistic working...
...world has entered the phase of Pax Atomica. The only danger is the so-called peace movement in the West, which imperils the balance of power. This can lead to nuclear war or to nuclear blackmail and surrender of the West. Andropov's side will not relinquish its strength...
Chrysler led the Big Three with a 21.7% increase last year, to 841,622 cars. Ford, which sold 1.57 million autos, climbed 16.8%. General Motors' sales of 4.05 million cars showed a gain of 15.3%. But the biggest improvement was made by American Motors on the strength of its highly successful Alliance subcompact. AMC sold 193,351 autos in 1983, a 72% increase over 1982. Last week American
...itself might be too narrowly defined. Women are apparently objecting to whole parts of Reagan's program, and not merely to specifically "feminist" areas. Should the Democrats necessarily see this in their favor? Or should both parties realize that women are now exerting an entirely new form of political strength, a form which might batter a male Democratic President just as harshly as a Republican, and which might move the entire political spectrum bodily leftward? If so, then a true feminist revolution may have started in 1980, when women voted significantly different from men for the first time. Perhaps...
...good thing he didn't. He played JV, got an injury at the end of the season and had to take a month off from the game. But during the summer, he came back to full strength...