Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stabilize currency markets. The Japanese escaped direct criticism of their own trade policies while joining in a general condemnation of protectionism. And all of America's trading partners extracted an admission from Washington that uncontrolled budget deficits contribute to rising interest rates and threaten to sap the strength of the budding global recovery. The conferees made no concrete pledges about how these problems would be specifically solved, but they at least came away with a greater sensitivity to one another's concerns...
Shultz concurred with his aides that El Salvador required the most competent career emissary that his department could provide-meaning Pickering. In the end, winning the bureaucratic trial of strength was relatively easy. Shultz took the matter directly to Clark, who readily agreed to the choice. According to some State Department cynics, Clark merely recognized that the White House needed no further unfavorable publicity over its choices of diplomatic personnel...
...would have allowed the Jordanian King to pursue the Reagan initiative in alliance with the Palestinians. The dissidents were actively encouraged by Assad and Gaddafi, who are opposed to Arafat's efforts toward moderation. They believe the Arabs must not negotiate with the Jerusalem government until their military strength is as great as that of Israel...
Nevertheless, the strength of the movement reflects the growing reluctance on the part of the public to allow science absolute freedom. "Research is not a neutral activity," says Eric Segal, a member of the steering committee of Nuclear Free Cambridge, "It has implications outside the lab" Drawing as an analogy regulations to control noxious pollution emitted by manufacturers, he argues that communities have the right to limit the work that local businesses do. "We have a lot of respect for scientists, but the government and not the people must have some say in these decisions." Uniting those who call...
...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...