Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buildup, ordered last week to counter what the Pentagon called Noriega's "heavy-handed tactics," will raise U.S. troop strength along the 50-mile-long Panama Canal to 11,800 officers and men. Noriega commands the 15,000 member Defense Forces...
...somewhere on campus, the College could have a small monument erected to remind us of the horrors of Civil War Not a tribute to valor, strength, and battle, but a testament to the carnage of war. List the names of all dead alumni in alphabetical order. Do not mention their place of birth or allegiance. Harvard must avoid making the monument a list of good guys versus bad guys...
...country's workers are unemployed and El Salvador's war against the Marxist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front sputters on, a point that guerrillas underscored by knocking out 80% of the country's electricity supply on election eve. Duarte's popularity in Washington, once a source of strength at home, is ridiculed today by many Salvadorans, who feel that U.S. advice and assistance have brought no solutions to national problems. To make matters worse, the Christian Democrats have been tarred by corruption: one of their Assembly candidates came under pressure to withdraw from the campaign after disclosures that...
...states still to vote have a lower percentage of blacks. It now seems almost certain that no candidate will win an outright majority by the end of the primary season, and it is becoming increasingly possible that neither Dukakis nor anyone else will reach the "critical mass" of delegate strength that will make it easy to corral enough strays in June to lock up the nomination...
Until Paris, went the chat among trade and press, the shows in Milan and London were a cumulative snooze-a-thon. Only Armani, in Italy, showed strength. The designers of England were, as ever, erratic and eccentric. There were signs of disappointment in retail reactions to the shows. Skirmishes over skirt length were blown, in the absence of any heavier action, into epic battles in a generally desperate attempt to bring heat to the placid proceedings. The short-skirt wrangle was a sure sign that the season was falling into something worse than a crisis. At least a critical condition...