Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inquiry had struck a discordant note in Anglo-American relations. The criminal investigation, begun in 1983, was supposedly looking into the possibility that British Airways and other North Atlantic carriers had conspired to cut prices to drive Britain's Laker Airways out of business. Before his airline went bankrupt in 1982, Freddie Laker had offered round-trip fares between London and New York for as little...
...build-up, which has distorted the economy and brought no appreciable increase in security in today's nuke-dominated world. The words unclear superiority simply have no meaning in international affairs any more, and the failure to yet understand this is perhaps the most disturbing feature of Reagan's bankrupt security policy. There is no clear way to arms control, especially if there is no clear will...
...felt as if I were watching the emperor without his clothes. I saw a President outfitted by imagemakers; yet the nakedness of his ideas was obvious. His economic and social policies will exploit the powerless, invade the most private aspects of our lives and in the process may bankrupt the country...
Much is riding on what happens between now and Christmas, when the industry does 40% of its annual business. Companies had sluggish sales this summer, and several firms, including Gavilan and Franklin, went bankrupt during the slump. Retailers, especially, are counting on a robust holiday selling season. Says Dyson: "They're discounting like crazy just to stay alive." In San Francisco, the price of a Mac has dropped to $1,695, and PCjrs are going for $745, more than 40% off their original list price...
...failure to recognize South Africa as an extreme case in a morally bankrupt system that makes proponents of the divestment "movement" only so many loud proclaims of liberal guilt. After all, it is easy to be liberal when you are not poor, oppressed and starving and you know that your actions will have no real effect on your own comfortable situation...