Word: american
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Call me un-American for likening cars to trinkets -- it's un-American not to take cars very seriously. But consider the irony as you call me un-American from behind the wheel of your $45,000 Porsche...
...thirds of that from international reinsurers -- Lloyd's of London is the biggest -- which protect insurers against catastrophic losses. Still, the earthquake claims, coming less than a month after the devastation caused by Hurricane Hugo, could set off a chain reaction. Reinsurers might become reluctant to continue backstopping American insurers, which in turn would write fewer policies and raise premiums -- and not just on earthquake insurance...
...reason Soviets have little use for their own currency is the shortage of consumer goods to buy. The result is that thegoods have become the storehouse of value rather than the money, as in hyperinflationary economies. A leading Soviet economic official told a visiting American that his neighbor had a seven-year supply of detergent in his tiny apartment...
...Offer incentives for American businesses and universities to provide training, internships, exchanges and technical advice to private-sector managers and workers...
...phone at his clerk every time he passes; and a bond trader who thrives on global catastrophe. Minutes after the Chernobyl disaster, this fellow advises, "Buy potatoes." Lewis suddenly understands: "Of course. A cloud of fallout would threaten European food and water supplies . . . placing a premium on uncontaminated American substitutes...