Word: supportively
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...companies. (Gilder might cite as a counter-example RCA, which squandered its technological heritage by investing in such diversions as carpetmaking and rental cars.) High-tech corporations, says Ferguson, need a heavy capital base to pay for research, computer networks, manufacturing systems and worldwide organizations for sales and customer support. Upstart U.S. firms, too small to bankroll their own factories, often turn to Japanese companies for manufacturing help or sell their key technologies to raise capital for expansion and product development. A common result: the erosion of overall U.S. market share...
...soldier with no political ambitions. Baig attended the tank trials along with Zia but had to make another stop on the way to Rawalpindi and therefore returned on a different plane. Unlike some other generals, Baig treated Junejo and his government with respect, and Western diplomats hope he will support a return to civilian rule. Few believe, however, that the military will readily give up its traditional prerogatives. One Western diplomat described the domination of the emergency council by military officers, both active and retired, as "the edge of the wedge" that will usher in military rule...
...West, meanwhile, there is concern that Zia's death may mean that Pakistan will retreat from its vigorous support of the Afghan rebels. Zia had personally supervised the CIA-financed and Pakistani-run operations that gave sanctuary, training and arms to Afghan resistance fighters. Though many Pakistanis opposed aiding the rebels, Pentagon officials are convinced that General Baig and his senior military staff know where their interests lie. "The geopolitical realities remain even if Zia is gone," said a Defense Department official. "Pakistan cannot accept a Soviet-dominated Afghanistan on one border and India on the other." Those who consider...
...think Mandela should "choose to go back to prison" and that he hoped Mandela "will make it possible for me to act in a humane way." That meant, he said, that he was prepared to release Mandela if he would reject political violence and pledge not to support those...
Bush. You heard me support him today and yesterday. I can't do any more than that. There's no evidence of wrongdoing. If there were, I'd be happy to consider...