Word: vigorousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Comeback Kid do it again? To show off his vigor and dispel negative reports about the company, a determined Iacocca flew to Washington last week to kick off a six-city tour. Standing before a display of Chrysler products, Iacocca harangued the crowd: "Every time I pick up the paper, I seem to read another story that reinforces the idea that things made overseas are somehow better than anything made in America," he said. "We're not going to let that kind of crap go unchallenged anymore...
Eager to retain Moscow's approval and economic support, the Hanoi government is dancing with some vigor to Gorbachev's new tune. The geriatric government of Communist Party Secretary-General Nguyen Van Linh has reduced its armed forces by 500,000 troops over the past two years. Economic reforms begun in 1987 have included devaluing the currency, slashing subsidies for state enterprises and permitting a free market to blossom. The results have been encouraging. Last year Viet Nam exported more than 1 million tons of rice, the largest shipment in decades. But a U.S. trade embargo remains intact, and Viet...
...somehow expects struggles, even struggles with deadlines, to include some semblance of vigor, hope and enthusiasm. Harvard's twice-annual shopping period struggle, however, is marked above all by resignation...
...issue The Crimson ought to look into with some vigor. Chester W. Hartman...
That did not sound much like the President who was roundly denounced as a wimp as recently as October, when the U.S. stood aside as a Panamanian coup against Noriega failed and the dictator executed its leaders. But the October episode aside, Bush has been displaying a new vigor and assurance in foreign policy for months now. The Panama invasion only pointed it up. "I think there are an awful lot of people out there who may have had some erroneous impressions of the President who had them dramatically changed in the last several weeks or so," says House Republican...