Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perspective, but I don't have the talent. I could write a glorious indictment of drunk driving in this country and the mentality that fosters it, but statistics won't explain why he died. I could rant and rave against God (or no God), but that would not bring me any closer to the big WHY, a question everyone will have to face and will fail to answer...
...European countries and Japan to speed up the growth of their economies and, even more important, a greater cut in the U.S. budget deficit than any now in prospect. Says Mac Destler, senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for International Economics: "It may be that coordinated intervention will bring the dollar down if you believe that speculation has caused some of the overvaluation. But if you believe that the dollar is strong because of the budget deficit, then even well-coordinated intervention will not make a big difference...
...best the gradual devaluation that the U.S. wants to bring about would take a long time to work. Export prices would not drop, nor import prices rise, immediately. When they did, sales would not respond overnight. Some economists believe that 18 months or more would pass before the trade deficit came down markedly--and protectionists in Congress are hardly in any mood to wait that long. Accordingly, Reagan set out last week to convince them that their bitter complaints about unfair foreign trade practices have been heard and are getting action...
...horrors of this establishment bring out the best in Alice. There is no electricity, heat, water or plumbing. Plastic buckets of excrement left by previous squatters fill an upstairs room. The local borough council plans to tear the place down. Alice wheedles bureaucrats, placates the police, steals substantial sums of money from her father's house and later from his place of business. Before long, the new lodging is neat and shipshape. Her comrades, busy using their dole allowances to take taxis to picket lines and protest demonstrations, seem to appreciate the availability of hot food and the absence...
Meanwhile, Jobs has inspired hopeful activity far from Silicon Valley. The Chamber of Commerce of Boulder, Colo., last week invited Jobs to bring his new company to that city (pop. 77,000), where some 7,000 high-tech workers have been laid off during the past 18 months. Jobs could probably use a Rocky Mountain high, but he has yet to respond to the offer...