Word: brings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long-term impact on the economy is difficult to gauge. On Wall Street, the prospect of Gramm-Rudman's passage helped spark a stock-market rally that sent the Dow Jones industrial average surging past the 1500 mark on the hope that lower deficits will bring down interest rates and spur growth. But some leading economists castigated the budget-balancing bill in the most scathing terms imaginable. "It is," said Walter Heller, who served as President John Kennedy's chief economic adviser, "economically capricious, socially unfair, militarily risky, constitutionally questionable, politically irresponsible, procedurally perverse and administratively outlandish...
Meanwhile, a mutiny was brewing in the ranks of Republican House members. They felt ignored by the White House, and many considered Rostenkowski's bill antibusiness and hence a damper on growth. Reagan moved last week to try to bring the G.O.P. into line, but he faced determined opposition from Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois and the rest of the House Republican leadership...
Each week seemed to bring news of still more blockbuster deals: the General Motors-Hughes Aircraft merger and the Allied-Signal and Capital Cities Communications-ABC takeovers to cite a few. In April and again in August, the journalistic combine of Greenwald and Ungeheuer churned out major stories analyzing the accelerating merger trend...
...conference speakers to use English instead of professional jargon. Most complied, but there was still much talk of "accessing the self." The closest thing to a central idea was that the patient, or client, already has the answer to the problem deep within, and the therapist simply helps bring...
...when Israeli jet pilots, accompanying a pair of reconnaissance planes making a routine sweep over Lebanon, shot down the Soviet-made MiG-23s in Syrian airspace. The Israeli pilots said later that they had thought the MiGs were heading directly toward them. The Syrians immediately began to bring SA-2 missile batteries into positions along their border with Lebanon. Even more ominous, they transported SA-6 and SA-8 mobile missile batteries into Lebanon to positions along the Damascus-Beirut Highway and around Baalbek. The Israelis, concerned that the Syrian reinforcements would make Israeli reconnaissance flights exceedingly dangerous, asked...