Word: strengthen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue for two weeks and has put the contras among the top foreign policy priorities for his final year in office. Only a day earlier, Reagan had offered one final compromise giving Congress more say in the military aid. He argued that failure to extend aid would strengthen communist influence in the hemisphere...
...premature, yet they are following the Soviets' progress with interest. Only five years ago, two cosmonauts returned from 211 days in space suffering from dizziness, high pulse rates and heart palpitations. They were unable to walk for a week, and a month later they were still undergoing therapy to strengthen atrophied muscles and weakened hearts. Without gravity to work against, muscles -- including the heart muscle -- begin to waste away, and calcium, for reasons that are poorly understood, leaches out of the bones...
...subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury in Miami that is looking into charges that Noriega extracted protection money from drug traffickers based in Panama. Until last week, according to U.S. Government sources, some federal investigators felt they lacked sufficiently compelling evidence to indict Noriega. Blandon's testimony could strengthen their case -- especially if, as D'Amato says, the former consul general can provide documents and tape recordings to back up many of his allegations...
Afterward Defense Secretary Rafael Ileto quit, complaining of insufficient support for his efforts to strengthen the armed forces in the face of a Communist insurgency and a dissident movement within the military, and Aquino was forced to carry out a Cabinet shuffle. Ileto's successor: Armed Forces Chief of Staff Fidel Ramos, 59, one of the heroes of the 1986 military revolt that deposed former Dictator Ferdinand Marcos...
...markets also shrugged off a statement issued by the White House. Its major point: "The United States wants to see stability in the dollar." Despite such jawboning, the world's moneymen seem convinced that the dollar cannot strengthen as long as the U.S. trade deficit, estimated at a record $175 billion in 1987, keeps rising. Says Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa: "There may be a feeling that one cannot quite believe that the U.S. trade balance is really going to improve...