Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contract from the Indonesian government is part of a longstanding HIID involvement in several Indonesian government projects to spur rural development, improve its industrial and trade policies, and institute tax reform, HIID officials said yesterday...
From the start, the Kennedy School's mission -- to create a "public policy profession," in Harvard President Derek Bok's words -- has been controversial. To the tweedy professors at the university who like their professions traditional and their academics pure, the new training ground smacks of a trade school for bloodless bureaucrats. To those who think governing emanates as much from the heart as the brain, the Kennedy School is, like Dukakis, too systematic and process-oriented. It is politics for non- emoters comfortable with decision trees and regression analyses...
...Korean peninsula, Moscow remains the Communist North's principal supplier of military aid, including modern MiG-23 warplanes, but the Soviets want to cultivate trade and other ties with South Korea. That is largely why Soviet Olympians will be going for the gold in Seoul this summer rather than staying home. As a result, the U.S.S.R. has an incentive to use its leverage to prevent an attempt by the North to disrupt the Games...
...Finance Minister, Pierre Joxe as Interior Minister and Jack Lang as Culture Minister. The novelty is provided by a limited number of non-Socialists, including Centrist Senator Michel Durafour as Civil Service Minister, Supreme Court Jurist Pierre Arpaillange as Justice Minister and Businessman Roger Fauroux as Industry and Foreign Trade Minister. Last week senior Mitterrand aides telephoned eight members of the outgoing conservative Cabinet to sound them out about serving under Rocard. All refused. Mitterrand, however, believes that after new elections many centrists and even moderate conservatives will change their minds...
...mere partisanship to issues of deep ideology. For example, should the Government be encouraging women to work and turn their children over to someone else's care? Thus child care is potentially one of the hottest topics of the presidential $ and congressional campaigns. Unlike debates over the budget or trade policy, this one hits millions of voters directly where they live. "The issue of child care is politically ripe," says Secretary of Labor Ann McLaughlin, who has almost single-handedly prodded a lethargic Administration into starting to take a position...