Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pinochet no doubt wishes that the widespread opposition to his ten-year reign could be obliterated. Instead, the movement has been steadily gaining in strength, fueled by the government's inept management of the economy (15% inflation, 34.6% unemployment) and its indifference to civil and human rights. Especially troubling to Pinochet is the growing cohesiveness of the Democratic Alliance, a loose federation of the nation's five major opposition parties. The most recent demonstration was part of a protest organized by the Democratic Alliance to mark the tenth anniversary last Sunday of the military coup that ousted...
...after a disastrous 21-month reign as Argentine President. She fled to self-exile in Spain, but last week the government restored her political rights, and many Peronists expect her to return at any moment. Meanwhile, the Peronists' principal opposition, the centrist Radical Party, has rapidly been gaining strength...
Solid play in the midfield, which second-year Coach Jape Shattuck predicted would be the squad's preseason strength, clinched the Crimson win. Hooper scrambled all over the field where field where needed, and wing halfbacks Pablo Keller-Sarmiento and Glenn Brack had enough space to make piercing runs from the flank...
...industries oil (constituting about 44 percent of the petroleum industry), automobiles and trucks (33 percent), and computers (roughly 70 percent). All of these industries, advocates of divestiture argue, are critically important to the South Africa government's capacity to maintain control and develop its economic and military strength...
...industries oil (constituting about 44 percent of the petroleum industry), automobiles and trucks (33 percent), and computers (roughly 70 percent). All of these industries, advocates of divestiture argue, are critically important to the South African government's capacity to maintain control and develop its economic and military strength...