Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their freedom, of being wronged, of having their dignity trampled upon." Then, in a second indirect appeal to jailed Solidarity supporters, he cited Wyszynski's three-year ordeal under house arrest during a state campaign against the church in the 1950s as an example of how to draw strength from adversity. The congregation burst into applause when John Paul thanked God that Wyszynski had been "spared the sad events associated with the date of Dec. 13, 1981," when martial law was imposed...
Andropov gets a new title, but doubts about his strength remain...
...Soviet spring offensive, vintage 1983, perhaps the most savage assault since the invasion. There are, according to Western estimates, some 105,000 Soviet troops now in Afghanistan. Using tanks, helicopters and fighter-bombers, these forces pounded villages throughout the Shomali region. Their objective, presumably, was to obliterate guerrilla strength around the crucial 50-mile stretch of highway leading from Kabul toward the Soviet border, along which the invaders transport their supplies. Meantime, according to Western intelligence reports, Soviet bombers were attacking targets near Herat in the west and around Kandahar in the south. They apparently hope that by demolishing villages...
...delicacy of the recovery and worries about the problems in international finance caused by huge debts in developing countries have been adding strength to the notion of keeping Paul Volcker on the job. In the financial community Volcker is regarded as something of a demigod because he brought down inflation, strengthened the dollar and set the stage for the euphoric bull market in stocks that began last August. Nearly 80% of 702 executives polled by the investment firm A.G. Becker Paribas gave their vote of confidence to Volcker, with Alan Greenspan a distant second at 5.8%. Monetarist Milton Friedman...
...atmosphere, or heliosphere, the bubble of particles blown into space by the solar wind, is much farther out than supposed. Researchers had expected the region to end near Jupiter's orbit. But even now the spacecraft's instruments show no decline in the heliosphere's strength, only what seems to be a swelling and contraction connected with cycles of solar activity...