Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been ineffective in holding down the general level of imports and sometimes even in aiding the domestic industries they are supposed to help. In steel, quotas on shipments from the European Community, Japan and eleven other nations were supposed to hold imports to 20.5% of U.S. consumption, but the actual share is running at 25.7%. What quotas and other restrictions do accomplish is to raise prices of imports and of the American goods that compete against them. The New York Federal Reserve Bank figures that quotas and tariffs on clothing and textiles cost consumers between $8.5 billion and $12 billion...
...traders got the message. As soon as the exchange markets opened Monday morning, private dollar sales began and continued in such heavy volume that American greenbacks fell about 5% against major currencies that day alone. For the rest of the week, though, the dollar drifted down slowly enough, despite actual, coordinated sales by the five governments, to leave the long-range impact of the devaluation drive in doubt. Money traders believe the five governments have specifically targeted the dollar-yen exchange rate; the yen gained 8.8% last week against the greenback, vs. 5.8% for the French franc...
John Antonoli's documentary chronicles the life of a writer who has been compared to other Americans such as Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Whitman. And it handles the history well. But the actual film footage lags way behind an intriguing story...
...reconstructed scenes from Kerouac's life--which comprise about a third of the film, in addition to actual television excerpts and interviews with Kerouac's friends--resemble film clippings from Leonard Nimoy's In Search Of. These short pieces of film move slowly, the actor bears no resemblance to Jack Kerouac, and the scenes contain an inanity that we soon learn is unintentional. They seem like video filler for a predominantly oral presentation...
Though Herschler's bankruptcy petition showed $9.4 million in debts, the Governor estimates that the actual figure will be somewhere between $4.8 million and $6.75 million. His listed assets total $7,518,000 but include a $7.5 million claim against one of his partners. Herschler, 66, is a Democrat serving an unprecedented third term in an overwhelmingly Republican state. A poll taken in August indicated that he remains the most popular politician in Wyoming...