Word: unlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Aquino rightfully deserves praise for holding together her people against extremism, it is worth remembering that her presidency is still less than a year old. Unless she can parlay her enormous popular support into concrete political stability, the continual crises of the past months will continue to resurface...
...spoke on Capitol Hill, negotiators for the U.S. and the twelve- member European Community reached an eleventh-hour compromise that narrowly averted a major international trade war. Last March the E.C. effectively cut off some $400 million in U.S. grain exports to Spain after that country entered the Community. Unless adequate compensation was provided, the U.S. said, it would impose crippling 200% duties at 12:01 a.m. last Friday on such Community exports as British gin, French cognac and Dutch cheese. Finally, about four hours before the deadline last week, a settlement was reached and the shoot-out was called...
...that the House passed last year but that died in the Senate. Included in that bill is a controversial amendment sponsored by Democratic Representative Richard Gephardt of Missouri. It provides that countries with highly protected domestic markets that run large surpluses with the U.S. would face automatic trade restrictions unless the surplus is reduced by fixed percentages annually. Gephardt's proposal would remove virtually all presidential discretion in dealing with such bilateral trade difficulties...
...that precarious balancing act could collapse if the trade deficit continues to pile up at its present pace. Unless the decline of the dollar slashes the deficit soon, the Reagan Administration's measured trade initiative could be swept away by the more vociferous forces of outright protectionism...
...President has instructed me to return home with all the hostages," McFarlane told Ghorbanifar. The middleman insisted there had been a deal to deliver only two of the four Americans. "We reached an agreement and shook hands yesterday," Ghorbanifar protested. Replied McFarlane: "There is no agreement. Unless you produce the four hostages for me today, I am returning to the United States...