Word: brush
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...addition to the sluggish economy, an important factor in the dollar's weakness may be fears that President Reagan, because of his recent brush with cancer, will not be able to serve out his full term. Says Alfred Roth, the chief currency trader at New York City's Chemical Bank: "So much of this market is not just economics. It's pure psychology, and Reagan's health has done a lot to hurt the dollar." Agrees Pierre Rinfret, a New York-based economic consultant: "Confidence in President Reagan's leadership made the dollar a strong, upbeat currency for roughly three...
...comprehensive contract talks. When U.A.W. President Owen Bieber and Tom Miner, Chrysler's vice president of labor relations, shook hands last week to open new negotiations, the circumstances were very different from those surrounding the earlier talks. In 1982 Chrysler was just starting to come back from a brush with bankruptcy, its veins full of bailout money. Today the company is robust, its sales up and Government-backed loans of $1.2 billion paid...
...measure, he is an unlikely leader in today's world. Imprisoned since 1962 on a variety of charges, including conspiracy and sabotage, he has taken no active part in fomenting the black rage that in 1985 spread like a brush fire in the veld, leading to the deaths of more than 850 South Africans, almost all of them nonwhite. His words cannot be legally published in the South African press. Only a few intimates even know what he looks like now; he has not been photographed since 1965. Yet from his cell in Pollsmoor Prison near Cape Town, Nelson Mandela...
...highflyers were the Gap, the casual-wear retailer, whose stock more than tripled, from 20½ to 62¾; and Tonka, the Minnesota toymaker, whose Pound Puppies and Go-Bots carried its shares briskly along from 10¼ to 27½. On the American Stock Exchange, American Medical Buildings, which had a close brush with bankruptcy in 1984, was the biggest of the big last year. It jumped from 1 1/8 to 6 7/8. TAKEOVER BATTLES Union Carbide in the Trenches...
...seven planes of the Salvadoran air force swooped in low, dropping several bombs and strafing the area with machine-gun fire. "That was President [José Napoleón] Duarte's Christmas present to us," remarked María Cruz Amaya, who says she spent most of the day hiding in the brush. As it happened, no one was hurt in the raid. Indeed, Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Adolfo Blandón later denied to TIME that there had been any recent air attack on La Joya. Such charges, he said, were a "trick" by the rebels to "ruin the prestige...