Word: tensing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Queensland Museum archaeologists are planning an expedition this fall to the Pandora, an 18th century British navy frigate that lies 75 miles east of Australia's Cape York Peninsula. When Pandora sank in 1791, it is thought to have carried to the bottom four captured mutineers from H.M.S. Bounty shackled...
Later, an antiphony. Tens of thousands gather in the streets and break into a good-humored chorus of "Why are we waiting?" though some have waited for two nights or more and would not think of quitting now. A handsome couple appear on a balcony above. "Give us a kiss...
Free enterprise has a way of sprouting in even the harshest ground. In Peru, a burgeoning "informal sector" has grown up alongside state-owned companies. Says Hernando De Soto, director of the Institute for Freedom and Democracy, a Lima research group: "The informal sector is laying the basis for capitalism...
The tumultuous Philippines, East Asia's poorest country, has the most ambitious free-enterprise plans. President Corazon Aquino is pressing for a "second revolution" to rebuild her impoverished and embattled country, which faces Communist insurgents at home and political maneuvers launched by ousted President Ferdinand Marcos from abroad. A Cabinet...
Reagan's greatest failure involves the huge federal debt, now $2 trillion, half of it accumulated during the Reagan years. He administered a deep tax cut during an enormous military buildup. Tens of thousands of family farmers have been destroyed, and the economy of the Midwest has been badly shaken...