Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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By last week there were some heartening signs of recuperation. Nearly all the 90,000 people who sought refuge in motels or Red Cross emergency shelters have either returned home or moved in with family or friends. Roughly 85% of the 224,000 people idled temporarily by the hurricane have...
-- Grant Poland most-favored-nation status, as well as encourage trade policies that would provide hard currency from increased exports rather than through excessive foreign borrowing.
Moreover, the reformers must work with ingredients that have grown stale. Every East European nation faces to some extent a similar litany of consumer complaints: food and fuel shortages, inadequate salaries that are declining in purchasing power, massive budget deficits. It presumes a lot to think that East Europeans will...
East Berlin, of course, wants no part of any reunification dialogue. For East Germany, reunification means political obliteration. Only West Germans talk eagerly about the prospect of regaining through peace what they lost through war. For many of them, the question is no longer if reunification can happen; the question...
The development of radar (short for radio detection and ranging) applications in the U.S. stemmed from the accidental discovery in 1922 that a ship moving between a radio transmitter and receiver interfered with the signals. The technology came into its own in World War II, when it progressed rapidly from...