Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry was setting a 10% to 12% pace. Earnings slipped sharply during the quarter ending in June, falling to $77 million from $111 million a year earlier. Says William Leach, an analyst with Wall Street's Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette: "General Foods just seems to have an inability to bring success down to the bottom line. A company like Sara Lee, which has a much weaker market position and fewer glamorous products, is turning out consistently more impressive earnings year after year...
...player in the drive to bring the highflying U.S. dollar down to earth, Fred Springborn starts his day early and ends it late. Arriving at his ^ cramped Treasury Department office at about 6 a.m., the foreign-exchange specialist scans a Reuters video monitor through bleary eyes, checking the latest U.S. dollar prices from Bonn to Bangkok. After conferring by phone with colleagues at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Springborn heads down two flights of stairs to brief his boss, Treasury Secretary James Baker, who normally arrives before 7:30. In consultation with Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker...
...Output of goods and services is growing at a rate of around 2% this year. That is much slower than it would be if the U.S. share of domestic and export markets were the same as it was even a few years ago. It is too low, besides, to bring down unemployment...
...rates that has prevailed for the past dozen years, governments can try only to influence the decisions of money traders and their clients, who can switch tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars within hours (see box). And many complex factors have been keeping the dollar high. To bring about a deep and lasting drop may require not only prolonged and heavy sales of dollars by the U.S. and its allies but fundamental changes in their economic policies, above all a much greater reduction in the U.S. budget deficit than any now in sight...
...rates in the U.S. well above comparable rates abroad, pulling in much foreign capital from investors who seek the highest possible return on their savings. Whatever the cause, officials always conceded that the dollar might get too lofty and that intervention on the exchange markets might be needed to bring it down. But they were wary of actually doing it. Privately, some U.S. officials described intervention as "spitting in the wind...