Word: abruptly
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Such cheer has yet to percolate among many ordinary people, who have learned to distrust official forecasts and have been turned off by Washington's frequent abrupt changes in economic policy. Jay Schmiedeskamp of the University of Michigan's respected Survey Research Center reports that "the level of consumer confidence is still greatly depressed." The center's latest survey, conducted during February, showed that only 8% of the questioned consumers expected to enjoy good times within the next five years; 61% expected hard times. The unemployed (8 million active job seekers, plus 1.1 million people who have...
Even as the U.S. waits expectantly for an upturn in its slumping economy, recession in much of the rest of the non-Communist world is deepening. Though some nations are hoping for the beginning of the end of hard times later this year, no abrupt reversal of the worldwide drop in production and rise in unemployment seems likely, largely because the slide is so widespread. The situation underscores the perils raised by the growing interdependence of key industrial countries. In an era when heavy world trade, the operations of multinational companies, and massive flows of money across international borders have...
...Boston Bruins season came to an abrupt and unexpected end last night as the Chicago Black Hawks defeated the Bruins, 6-4, last night to win their best-of-three series with Boston...
...abrupt nationalization of banks and insurance companies, with the possibility that steel, mining and chemical companies will soon follow...
...According to reports by South Vietnamese officials, this victory gives the Communists nearly complete control of the entire northern half of South Viet Nam; Saigon's forces now hold only a number of coastal enclaves, and it is only a matter of time before they, too, fall. The abrupt collapse of government resistance in Danang climaxed a week in which Communist troops advanced almost at will down the central plains of South Viet Nam. In Saigon, President Nguyen Van Thieu was under pressure to yield powers to a more broadly based government...