Word: strongest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reward-a concert ticket, say. Waiting has its social orderings, its rules and assumptions. Otherwise peaceful citizens explode when someone cuts into a line that has been waiting a long time. It is unjust; suffering is not being fairly distributed. Oddly, behavioral scientists have found that the strongest protests tend to come from the immediate victims, the people directly behind the line jumpers. People farther down the line complain less or not at all, even though they have been equally penalized by losing a place...
While TIME's European Board was meeting last week, American tourists abroad were enjoying the benefits of the strongest dollar in years. Travelers in French restaurants, British department stores and Italian antique shops happily found that their dollars bought a lot of the good life. Despite yearlong predictions that the U.S. currency would fall in value, it was flying higher than ever. The dollar reached a ten-year peak against the West German mark and set records against French, British and Canadian currencies...
...strongest action was the forced retirement of General Jorge H. Arguindegui, who was named Chief of Staff by Alfonsin shortly after the President took office. General Ricardo Pianta, a career officer said to be independent of both the nationalist and conservative wings within the armed forces, was appointed to succeed Arguindegui. For the moment there appeared to be no threat of a military coup. But there was an ominous warning: as the dismissals were being announced, a bomb exploded on the roof of a Buenos Aires TV station that was airing the details of an official report on the abuses...
...agile, two-seat Fiero (base sticker price: $8,310) this year, now says sales will top 100,000. Momentum is also building for the $15,500 turbo-powered Chrysler Laser and Dodge Daytona, which have a claimed top speed of 125 m.p.h. In California, one of the strongest sellers is the Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta, a luxury sports car. Loaded with options such as a sunroof, digital instruments and a cassette player, it sells for about...
Last week, in what is considered one of the strongest challenges to Vatican pronouncements in many years, a group of prominent Catholic theologians from Europe, Latin America and the U.S. defiantly championed the ideas and practices of the liberation movement. The response came from a group of prominent and liberal theologians called Concilium, among them the Revs. Hans Küng and Gustavo Gutierrez, a prime architect of Liberation theology. Said the statement: "As these movements are a sign of hope for the whole church, any premature intervention from higher authorities risks stifling the Spirit, which animates and guides local...