Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mexico, which ships about two-thirds of its $21 billion in export wares to U.S. markets, hopes the Washington agreement will make it easier to sell more goods to its neighbor. Stronger export sales would help finance the country's $100 billion foreign debt...
None of Moore's arguments, however, disprove the basic contention that high- cholesterol diets are potentially hazardous. The evidence against cholesterol is stronger than he implies. If his readers go back to pouring on the gravy and spreading the butter, then the book will have done them a disservice...
Development and rent control were the two most controversial issues at the forum. While candidate Alan Bell called for a balanced approach to development, Wolf insisted on a stronger tactic, saying, "This city has got to make up its mind on whether it wants to sell out to development...
...share these views, and anyway, she refuses to pander when voters challenge her judgment. She is, by temperament, uncomfortable with easy promises or hand-knit populism. Instead her rhetoric rings with noblesse oblige. "If you are born strong, with parents who give you the best, you have an even stronger responsibility for the people who didn't get the same start...
...world stage, increasingly less reliant on the U.S. and less cowed by the Soviet Union at the same time as it evolves into a more unified community. Never again will Washington be able to take Western Europe and its allegiance for granted. "We have grown up and have stronger muscles," says Italian journalist Ludina Barzini. "It's going to be difficult for America to understand that it is not the only rich Western power anymore...