Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does his account skirt any developed coherent discussion of the man's deepest beliefs and convictions. "People are susceptible to simplistic--and erroneous--answers." Cuomo writes, before launching into: "The whole criminal system needs rehabilitation, unemployment must be relieved, a loss of spiritual values has created a vacuum--but many people believe the answer is the electric chair. It's easier to believe that, I have to find a way to tell what I believe is the truth--and get it understood...
...currently imports only 3% of its oil from the gulf, compared with 13% in 1979. The general view is that if the gulf's present output of 7 million to 8 million bbl. a day, 40% of which comes from Saudi Arabia, were to be cut off, the vacuum could be largely filled by increased exports from nongulf producers such as Nigeria, Mexico, Venezuela, Indonesia and Libya...
...Netherlands included up to two dozen dead birds that were stuffed with cocaine. One group of South American narcotics dealers is believed to have coated outgoing crocodile skins with pure cocaine. The smugglers assured port inspectors that the powder was a preservative, then later removed the coke with a vacuum cleaner...
...Western diplomat in Managua describes the current foundering of the Sandinistas as "not a political vacuum, but the air is being sucked out." Yet he also warned that "their decline is not yet marked by the rise of anyone else's fortunes." Under those conditions, the Sandinistas will probably remain in power for the foreseeable future, but the pall of gloom over Nicaragua is likely to grow deeper...
...largely symbolic move that will re-emphasize a well-known fact and, in the process, antagonize Israel's Arab neighbors? It is time for the U.S. to become more sensitive to the reactions of the Arab world and to realize that Israel does not exist in a vacuum...