Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cause a recession? Or even a global depression like the one ushered in by the 1929 Crash? What would happen to the dollar, to interest rates, to world trade? What might Ronald Reagan do to calm the markets? Could a President who was so weakened by the Iran-contra affair and the impending defeat on the Bork nomination, and who was distracted by war in the Persian Gulf and his wife's cancer operation, possibly quell the financial turmoil? Did he even understand that he faced a first-class crisis of confidence in his leadership...
Though MIT is describing the campaign as a five-year affair that will last until 1992, the university has actually been raising funds for the drive since 1984, said William J. Hecht, director of MIT's alumni association. In fact, of the $550 million goal, the school has already raised $210 million, he said...
...process is called a "correction," which makes it sound like a painless, orderly affair. But last week's bloodbath on Wall Street was more aptly dubbed an "October massacre." Turmoil and outright fear shook the financial markets as stampeding hordes of investors got caught up in a mood that had been almost absent during the go-go 1980s: bearishness. Over the course of less than two months, in the worst setback since the bull market began five years ago, the value of U.S. stocks has plunged by nearly half a trillion dollars...
...spent that weekend on a yacht , in the Aegean with Liani. Three weeks ago, the first picture of Papandreou and Liani as a couple appeared on the cover of the normally progovernment monthly Eikones. As tongues wag louder, the Prime Minister is maintaining a stony silence about the affair...
...Biden tape affair, Dukakis also lost his campaign manager, John Sasso, who created the anti-Biden tape and resigned after acknowledging he misled the governor about...