Word: alignments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PROMINENT MONETARIST has called the EMS "a fundamentally flawed idea," arguing that it is untenable to align foreign exchange rates without fixing monetary growth rates. Statistics support the observation. The free-spending socialist government has allowed the French money supply to grow at a 14 percent clip in the past two years. The German rate snailed at 2 percent for a similar period, partly because of conservative fiscal policies. A high French inflation rate (9.5 percent) and staggering external trade balance ($13 billion) have slowed the French economy while the German trade balance sprinted ahead, reporting a $3 billion surplus...
...have the only clear idea of how the council would go about realizing the "action" that his fellow candidates promised. Specifically, he suggested that, on each issue, the council seek out natural allies to work with. For example, to increase student voice over Faculty appointments, the council should align itself with junior professors disgruntled about their snowball-in-hell chances for tenure...
Huchra explained that the event itself is not unprecedented: Every 13 years, the earth, moon, sun, Jupiter and Venus align similarly without significant effect on the earth...
...George Bush, then ambassador to the United Nations, labeled India's action "aggression"--a judgement that drew heavy criticism at home. As John P. Lewis, then dean of Princeton's school of public affairs, wrote in an op-ed piece for The New York Times, "We have managed to align ourselves with the wrong side of about as big and simple a moral issue as the world has seen lately...
...controversial tax decision, announced on Jan. 8, seemed to align the Administration with enemies of the civil rights movement. Reagan's aides initially created the impression that the President had acted with little notice and less information in advance of the change. Reagan disposed of that dodge at his press conference. "No one put anything over on me," he said. "The buck stops at my desk. I'm the originator of the whole thing." He conceded that the matter had been poorly handled. But now he was vigorously, if belatedly, urging Congress to pass legislation that would deny...