Word: toed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In Washington, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater denounced the policy as "unacceptable until conditions in Viet Nam improve." In London, opposition Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock assailed the move as a "shameful episode," accusing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of acting ! "tyrannically." Thatcher denounced Kinnock's criticism as "feeble and nonsense...
Meanwhile the overcrowded camps in Hong Kong threaten to erupt in violence and disease. The refugees' presence is deeply resented, since many of Hong Kong's 5.7 million people have close relatives who have been denied sanctuary and deported to China.
Though the British Foreign Office said there will be no more involuntary repatriations this year, they are certain to resume unless other nations offer an alternative. The boat people, says a senior British diplomat, "are chasing a dream that doesn't and can't exist." At least not in Hong...
For nine months advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi has admitted that it was enduring a rough year. But when chairman Maurice Saatchi faced investment analysts in the company's luxurious London boardroom two weeks ago, the news was far worse than anyone had feared. After 19 years of uninterrupted growth, Saatchi...
How could a firm long heralded for its go-go brilliance stumble so badly? Somehow the company that transformed the advertising industry worldwide during the 1980s seems to have lost its alchemist's touch. Deepening the management mystery, Saatchi & Saatchi profits fell while its global advertising business continued to thrive...