Word: waging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accept our responsibility having accepted the loans, but if we wanted to pay the debt now, [it would mean] that every Ecuadoran...will have to work two years of minimum wage to clear it," Parodi told approximately 100 people gathered in Starr Auditorium...
...price of tusks. But even those who championed the ivory ban doubt that the elephant is out of peril. Said Susan Lieberman of the U.S. Humane Society: "This isn't the end, it's the beginning, but now the elephant has a cease-fire." Conservationists must continue to wage war against poachers and provide people living beside the game reserves with reasons for regarding the elephant as something more than a pest capable of trampling a season's crops. Kenya plans to fence in its vast < game reserves and channel more of the $320 million from tourism into local communities...
...country develops. Like Mitterrand, Perez has been a socialist since his youth. He is still vice president, under Willy Brandt, of the Socialist International. During an earlier presidential term in the '70s, he nationalized Venezuela's oil industry, slapped controls on prices and interest rates, mandated wage boosts, increased regulation of agriculture and made government-subsidized loans to low-income city dwellers, peasants and small businessmen. Perez personified the socialist conviction that the common good can best be bought with public money. But by the time he left office, Venezuela was suffering from a massive deficit and high inflation, which...
...several house maters and first-year students continue to wage war against a proposal by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 to partially randomize next spring's house assignment lottery, they have also touched off a wide-ranging ideological debate about the very principles of diversity around which Harvard's undergraduate life revolves...
...unleash a counterattack to protect his company. Crandall has a proprietary attitude, having crafted the airline's go-go expansion since he became company president in 1980. He invented the frequent-flyer program and instituted the first supersaver fares. To cut labor costs, Crandall introduced a two-tier wage system under which younger hires were paid less than veteran workers. "Crandall won't give up easily," says an industry hand. "He sees American as his company. Trump's bid is a slap in his face...