Word: augustness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thanks to an emergency plan that included a wage and price freeze and massive increases in public utility tariffs, inflation has fallen steadily: to 33 percent in August, 10 percent this month. Economists are even predicting negative inflation for next month...
Americans who stay at home can sample the fruits of Soviet industry at trendy stores like New York City's Bloomingdale's, which in August opened a Perestroika Shop. Back-to-school shoppers could choose last week from Soviet items that included watches, sunglasses and Red Star-emblazoned sweat shirts. The department store company is now negotiating to open one or two small Bloomingdale's shops in Moscow next spring. Not to be outdone, Nathan's Famous, a New York-based fast-food chain, last week shipped a 40-ft. mobile restaurant to Moscow, where it will open Sept...
Since mid-August, library workers have modified the Harvard On-Line Library Information System (HOLLIS) to allow readers to find books by entering key words from a title or subject, said Edward P. Tallent, Lamont reference librarian...
...NYNEX strike, effecting telephone workers from NET, began August 6. Union officials said this week they are asking students not to pay their phone bills until the dispute is settled...
...Byrne Professor of Administrative Law Richard B. Stewart --once a top candidate to succeed former dean James Vorenberg '49--was probably more than satisfied with the not-so-lesser Justice Department position he accepted in August, as assistant attorney general for environmental affairs...