Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...bold 10-year plan to reduce mortality rates and poverty among children and to improve access to immunizations and education. For once, this was more than a political lullaby of soothing promises: the very existence of the extraordinary summit held out hope to those who have fought to make children's voices heard. To lend support, more than a million people held 2,600 candlelight vigils earlier in the week -- in South Korea's Buddhist monasteries, in London's St. Paul's Cathedral, in Ethiopia's refugee camps, around Paris' Eiffel Tower, in 700 villages in Bangladesh...
...CROSSING and GOODFELLAS. A pair of aces about the Mob. The first film, from Joel and Ethan Coen, has gangsters of the '20s spitting out aphorisms and wrestling with ethics. The second, Martin Scorsese's bullet train of a cautionary comedy, shows the Mafia in its rapacious decline. Both make offers no moviegoer should refuse...
Those anxieties are well founded. If American blood is shed in a war against Israel's most dangerous foe -- albeit for distinct U.S. interests -- Israel will have a difficult time explaining its own reluctance to make political sacrifices that could promote peace in the region...
...software that helps stimulate the market for electronic products. Matsushita had little choice but to do likewise. The merger faces one bothersome hurdle: while Matsushita has a cash hoard of almost $10 billion and no long-term debt, rising interest rates and a sagging Tokyo stock market may make financing the acquisition difficult. In Tokyo financial experts give the deal no more than a fifty-fifty chance of success...
...billion in the E.C. and $67 billion in the U.S. European agriculture ministers last week agreed on a 10- year plan to cut domestic farm subsidies by 30% from 1986 levels. But that proposal may be rejected by the governing European Commission, some of whose members believe Europe should make deeper cuts to foster cooperation with...