Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...full-scale CIA association with the Nicaraguan contras began last October. A State Department official in Central America who is intimately involved with the covert operation says, "So far, they're doing better than expected, but in limited geographic areas." This official argues that the growing strength of the contras provides an effective way for the U.S. to apply pressure on the Sandinista government to end its backing of rebels in El Salvador. Agrees a senior State Department official in Washington: "Now we have got an element of reciprocity that gives Nicaragua an incentive to sit down and talk...
Harvard Coach Dave Fish has often remarked that the three are the core of the program's growth, and that each one has grown tremendously as a player. He adds that "Warren has really played tremendously this year, and Howard and Adam have shown great strength in being able to come back from bouts of ill health...
Besides their positions as team leaders, it is the trio's determination that strikes Diker. "They are all superb competitors. All three have been pillars of strength and taken the team to where they...
...much as $70 a share, more than twice its current $31 stock price. "There is no synergism in Trans World," claimed Lester Pollack, a general partner in Odyssey. Trans World's defense to its shareholders, trumpeted in full-page newspaper ads, was that its diversification was a strength in bad economic times...
...Petersburg, the son of a composer, young George got into ballet by accident. Accompanying his sister to a tryout at the Imperial School of Ballet, Balanchine found himself accepted after he walked across the floor in front of the judges, who were impressed by the nine-year-old's strength, posture and fierce, aquiline good looks. By his mid-teens, he was choreographing. After leaving Russia in 1924, Balanchine made his way to Paris and at 21 became balletmaster of Serge Diaghilev's famed Ballets Russes...