Word: blight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dollar's value, though, could prove to be less than a cure for that malaise. As the dollar falls and import prices rise, U.S. inflation could be rekindled. That in turn could lead to an increase in U.S. interest rates, which would hardly stimulate the economy and might blight the stock market's further advance. As if to underline that possibility, Volcker warned that it was "not sensible" to expect the dollar's plunge alone to cure the U.S. trade problem. After weeks of Wall Street euphoria in which the dollar's fall hardly seemed to matter, it appeared that...
...Homosexual activity is a blight on society," psychologist Paul Cameron told a largely hostile crowd of 300, according to the Massachusetts Daily Collegian...
Despite his frequent trans-global excursions Dewitt spends a lot of time hangin' out in New York City observing urban decay and blight at its finest...
American farmers are hardy survivors, used to contending with the vagaries of weather and blight. But as TIME correspondents toured agricultural regions last week, they found farmers uncharacteristically frightened by changes in the U.S. economy and impending shifts in Government policy. A sampling of their moods and situations follows...
Most of this book is not a description of Dartmouth drinking habits, but a dissection of the blight of liberalism at the Hanover, New Hampshire campus. Slings and arrows fly at many targets in Poisoned Ivy--the Dartmouth administration, mushy-headed liberals, activists of any kind, modern education--but the main point of this rather pointy book is simply that conservatives have more, well...