Word: tensing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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I don't want to sound rude or anything, but please, Mr. Reagan, take your Pershings, neutron bombs and cruise missiles and get out of Germany! We are old enough to take care of ourselves. Tens of thousands of innocent people in Viet Nam, Chile and Nicaragua have already...
Even Chinese leaders, like Deng himself, have stressed that the current campaign will produce nothing like the sweeping repression of the past, when tens of thousands were indiscriminately shipped off to labor camps or killed. Nor does it seem that China's leaders are preparing to impose anything like...
Brandt has plunged again into public life at a time when Schmidt is under increasing attack. Unemployment has been climbing steadily since Schmidt's reelection last October, as Europe's most fabled economy slowed. Most important, Schmidt is at odds with his party's left wing, which...
It is not just products that can spoil or rot that move by air. Tens of millions of dollars in nonperishable goods are also transported by airlines, and delivery delays can lead to losses many times larger than the cost of the actual goods shipped. Commercial aviation moves 90% of...
By today's thermonuclear standards the bombs were puny and primitive, the equivalent of only 12,500 and 22,000 tons of TNT each. But in Hiroshima 140,000 people died on the day of the attack and in the weeks immediately after it. Nagasaki lost 70,000 people...