Word: stays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...production goals. The government also winks at a booming underground economy. Although his economic growth record was lowest in the region last year, Kádár is one of the most popular rulers in the bloc. The 60,000 Soviet troops in the country try to stay out of sight and mind...
Walls returned to Zimbabwe last week to face the gathering storm. "To stay away at this time would have appeared like an admission of guilt," he told TIME'S Peter Hawthorne. Other points made by Walls during an hour-long interview in the garden of his Salisbury home...
...decision to retire: I stayed on because I decided that if we [white officers] all bailed out there would be a collapse. I had made no definite time period, and Prime Minister Mugabe had mentioned no definite time period. But I don't think a chap should be at the top too long, and I also thought I'd had a pretty long innings. Perhaps I could have achieved far more and would have been prepared to stay if I had been given more authority...
...Burroughs have recently bought land for construction of major new plants in Connecticut. "We were arrogant and half asleep for 25 years, allowing what we had here to be drained away," says Connecticut Economic Development Commissioner Edward Stockton. "Now we have incentives to encourage businesses to settle and stay here...
Suggestions that Rockefeller should step down became so pointed that in 1977 he wrote a memo to the bank's vice presidents, stating that he intended to stay on as chairman until he reached mandatory retirement age in 1980. He added as a personal challenge: "I intend to make those three years the most productive of my career...