Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good financial sense today, and it is in this context that we can understand the pull-outs by the transnational giants--General Motors, International Business Machine Corporation and others that are currently under way. It makes sense of the fact that some 70 transnationals, either publicly or quietly, recently undertook efforts to sell their South African investments, often at some financial loss. The deeply undermined South African economy is not attracting new external investors, contrary to the current view that transnationals from other countries quickly move in when others sells their holdings...
...with appearances. Each collection includes a story about a diet. Klass' story, "The Secret Lives of Dieters," traces the disintegration of a relationship throughout a diet. Gilchrist's is bathetic. It opens with a report of the death of JeanAnne Lori Mayfield who ended the last diet she ever undertook by crashing into a doughnut shop, killing two people...
...agreement like the one being proposed would leave NATO in a much stronger position than when it undertook INF modernization in 1979. Both sides would have roughly comparable medium-range forces. It could also pave the way for more serious bargaining on long-range strategic missiles and defensive systems. Yet progress on these fronts, like the final resolution of an INF deal, will require a real impetus, involving further acts of political will from the two leaders meeting in Iceland this weekend...
...have removed the prohibition on mixed marriages. We are in the process of dismantling further forms of apartheid. We have declared our readiness to remove apartheid, to share power up to the highest level of government. We did not undertake these changes to please the outside world. We undertook these reform measures because we believed that we must extend democracy. It is one of the most tragic phenomena of history. At a time when this government is extending democracy and can demonstrate that we took steps in one year that the U.S. could not take in 20 years, not only...
...Aquino undertook the trip, her second outside Manila since assuming power in February, to prove that there is popular support for her conciliatory efforts toward the Communist rebels. As she rode through Davao, thousands waved the yellow ribbons that have come to symbolize her People Power campaign. It was an impressive reception. Even so, some could not help being reminded of similar events staged by her predecessor...