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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...live in Japan, a nation constitutionally pledged solely to defense, but your air force is obsolete, and you don't have a navy. Your nation depends on the outside world for most of its raw materials and commerce. Your strongest ally, the United States, under whose protection your people were able to build the most efficient and productive economy in the world, has gradually taken on larger and wider responsibilities in other parts of the world. In recent years the Americans have asked your country to make a relatively large increase in defense spending, something you've been able...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: On the Defensive | 10/11/1983 | See Source »

...Roxbury, a predominantly Black neighborhood where King's support is strongest, the campaign will use 20 vans, three buses, and more than 80 cars to drive voters to polling places. Dee said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Final Day for Some | 10/11/1983 | See Source »

Working for a beer distributor this summer, I was among people who load and unload trucks ten to twelve hours a day. They are the strongest and fittest individuals I have ever known. The true Spartans are not prancing around in designer tights or contorting themselves on weight machines. They are using their muscles to make a living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 10, 1983 | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

Brown Head Coach Ed Reed concedes that "this is the strongest Harvard team ever." And although there is reason to believe that Harvard might just beat Brown this year, the Crimson faces an uphill battle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown's the Favorite in Water Polo Tourney | 10/8/1983 | See Source »

...Since the world moved to flexible exchange rates in 1971, efforts by a Third World country to raise its exports have run into a brick wall of currency inflation. This has retarded trade and made repayment of foreign loans far more difficult. Now, with the American dollar in its strongest position in decades, most nations have seen the real value of their currency dwindle nearly to nothing. Keeping up payments on loans thus becomes impossible, financing schemes offered by banks only postpone an inevitable repudiation of debts...

Author: By David L. Yermack, | Title: No Time for Austerity | 10/6/1983 | See Source »

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