Word: toward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poland and Hungary, former one-party Communist states, are hurtling toward Western-style democracy and hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets in East Germany to demand a similar transformation...
...said his government is "prepared to head toward the dissolution of the military-political blocs in Europe" in a mutual arrangement worked out by NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
...much more daring attitude toward the debt problem is vital. North American banks have been far too rigid. There should be not only a North Atlantic relationship between Europe and the U.S. but also a triangular one between Europe, the U.S. and Latin America. This has never been properly understood...
...Independence Mountains. Until gold was discovered, the Van Normans owned the rights to graze their cattle there. Now, on the very fence they built to control their herd, the Freeport-McMoRan Gold Co. has posted a big KEEP OUT sign. Waste rock from the mining operation has begun pushing toward the canyon like a moraine advancing at the prow of a glacier...
...array of custom chips to suit almost any purpose. These specialized chips can be much more profitable than the commodity chips mass-produced by the Japanese. As more and more instructions are etched onto chips, the balance of power in electronics is shifting from manufacturing prowess, Japan's strength, toward software and design, in which the U.S. excels...