Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which began considering the AMC purchase last summer, estimates that it missed out on $100 million worth of potential tax write-offs on the deal on Jan. 1 because the advantages were eliminated by the reform legislation. Nonetheless, Iacocca was determined to buy AMC. Said he: "((The merger will)) strengthen both of us in what's already become a tough market...
Ambassador Cooper countered by declaring hissupport for SDI as a defensive mechanism toprevent nuclear attack. He added that the SovietUnion engaged in similar research and that the twonations should cooperate to strengthen defensivetechnology...
...Washington the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on South Africa urged that the U.S. press its allies to strengthen economic and political . sanctions against South Africa. That was not what the Reagan Administration had expected to hear from its own committee. The White House set up the twelve-member panel of specialists from business, diplomacy, labor and politics last November in hopes of deflecting congressional pressure for stiff sanctions. Now nine members of the group, including former IBM Chairman Frank Cary and onetime Transportation Secretary William Coleman Jr., indicated in a 72-page report that the Administration's policy...
Administered by the government's DefenseAdvanced Research Projects Agency, the nationwideURI program is "designed to strengthen the abilityof universities to conduct research and educatescientists and engineers in 10 technologiesimportant to national defense," DOD officialssaid...
...numerous Harvard researchers are currently advising the Aquino administration on issues ranging from agrarian reform to industrial policy, as Aquino attempts to strengthen a floundering economy...