Word: furthering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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A. We will reduce the East-West confrontation further. We will make a lot of progress on the road to disarmament and detente. We will still need weapons and soldiers by the year 2000 because even then we will not have freedom for nothing. I am against a disarmament policy...
Under pressure from Congress, the Justice Department has been beefing up the staff and budget devoted to the scandals. The agency has $110 million to spend this year, which has enabled it to hire 368 more financial-fraud investigators, as well as 202 FBI agents and 118 more assistant U.S...
RING AROUND THE MONEY. What country will replace Panama as the world's leading drug-money Laundromat? U.S. law-enforcement agencies are wondering, and so, evidently, are the cocaine cartels. Uruguay, with its stringent bank-secrecy laws, would seem a natural heir. But after Uruguayan officials extradited an accused money...
As they do across the nation, economic class divisions further complicate racial rifts, with wealth filling the gaps and poverty widening them. The average black family in Greensboro makes about two-thirds of what a typical white family brings in, and, while the city's jobless rate is only 3.4...
Jokes aside, the rift between Washington and Jerusalem appeared to be widening alarmingly. Senior Administration officials insisted Baker's crack was no impulsive outburst but a calculated attempt "to lay down a marker before the new Israeli government locked itself into a position that made further progress ((toward peace talks...