Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reality. Jan. 1 marked the start of the Pact for Economic Stabilization and Growth, the latest package of wage and price controls intended to help keep Mexico's inflation rate below 20%. But it will probably pinch workers, whose real earnings have fallen steadily since 1982, and add further stress to an economy already staggering under more than $100 billion in foreign debt...
...will be tainted by poisons that have already been released. Even if global population growth could somehow be cut in half, there would still be more than 45 million new mouths to feed next year, putting further strain on a planet whose capacity to sustain life is already under stress...
...Gannett editors stress that mainstreaming should never conflict with sound news judgment. "You don't have to compromise to follow this policy," says USA Today editor Peter Prichard. "It's just a question of trying to broaden your vision." With a smaller percentage of white male readers in its future, Gannett has clearly seen the light...
After the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 by the cruiser U.S.S. Vincennes last July, a Pentagon investigation concluded that combat stress caused the ship's crew to mistake the civilian jetliner, carrying 290 passengers, for an Iranian fighter jet. Last week a panel of experts convened by the International Civil Aviation Organization reached a different verdict: the tragedy could have been averted if the American warship had been better prepared to communicate with commercial aircraft over the Persian Gulf...
From New York, Gorbachev will fly to Havana. Soviet spokesmen at the U.N. and in Moscow stress that his main purpose there will be more remonstrative than comradely. Fidel Castro has been openly skeptical about the new line coming out of Moscow and unrepentant about the export of revolution to Latin America and Africa. Since the Soviet Union provides $5 billion in aid to Cuba annually, Gorbachev will tell him to get with the program of new thinking...