Word: waging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...putting economic pressure on the Soviets in retaliation for the crackdown in Poland. He had reserved the option of imposing further sanctions if the Poles were not granted some greater measure of freedom. The Europeans were angry, regarding any American effort to block the pipeline as an attempt to wage economic war on the Soviet Union. They opposed economic sanctions both on principle-they are eager to preserve whatever remains of détente-and because they need the energy supplies and the jobs that the pipeline will provide...
...quality of his teamwork, Shultz knew how to lose a battle gracefully. For example, he had strongly advocated a "steady-as-she-goes" economic policy and urged Nixon not to attempt any radical fixes for stagnation and inflation. In 1971 Nixon suddenly imposed a new economic program that included wage and price controls. As a monetarist disciple of Milton Friedman, Shultz was strongly opposed. Nevertheless, he dutifully supported the program and was soon given responsibility for enforcing its cost-of-living guidelines...
...fight wholeheartedly for the Palestinians and their willingness to make a separate ceasefire. The situation in Syria has been complicated by the arrival in Damascus last week of some 2,000 Iranian volunteers, wearing green headbands and holding aloft pictures of Ayatullah Khomeini. Their mission: to help Syria wage war on Israel?despite the arms aid that Israel provided the Khomeini regime in its war against Iraq. There were reports that a total of 50,000 Iranians was expected in Syria. Iran's U.N. Ambassador Said Rajaie-Khorasani last week charged that "the U.S. encouraged Israel's bloody adventure...
Multinational companies offer some of the best jobs in less-developed countries because they can pay two to three times more than the going local wage. They therefore attract the brightest workers, and that can determine the direction of economic development. Another prestige job in the Third World is that of bus driver. Reason: poor people in a carless society depend on them for transportation...
...poverty as the youngest of a peddler's eight children, Cole spent $1 million acquiring the Press and an estimated $18 million to $20 million sustaining and transforming it, launching a Sunday edition and splashing the pages with color photographs. The newspaper's unions cooperated in layoffs, wage restraints and other concessions; Scripps-Howard agreed that most of the reported $20 million purchase price could come from any profits. Discounts and gimmicks helped push circulation from 304,000 to 316,000 and boosted advertising by 5.5 million lines. For once, the rescue of a big-city paper seemed...