Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Association of Home Builders, only 7.2% of its members reported a high volume of looker traffic in January, compared with 35.7% in January 1994-when severe winter weather in the Midwest and Northeast kept many prospects out of the market. "We are beginning to see a pretty sizable buildup in the inventory of unsold new homes,'' worries David Seiders, chief economist of the builders group...
...overstocked despite the massive discounting." That is partly because rising interest rates have been making it more costly for already overburdened consumers to borrow and spend. Americans took out a hefty $120 billion in new loans last year, increasing consumer debt to a record $891 billion. Much of that buildup came from low- and middle-income borrowers, whose earnings have shown little or no growth after adjusting for inflation...
Blackburn's Teddy Sherwood appeared to have equalized in the first minute of injury time past United keeper Peter Schmeichel, but Alan Shearer was adjudged to have committed a foul in the buildup...
...protests at all the bloodshed -- snipers were also picking off Russian soldiers waiting outside the city -- increased the pressure for a quick victory. Grachev moved up his D-day to New Year's Eve. The buildup of forces was halted, and local commanders had to go in with whatever units they could cobble together. Some were only at half-strength, and others were Interior Ministry troops, a kind of national guard used for internal security. "There was no joint training," says Sherman Garnett, a former head of Russian affairs at the Pentagon in Washington, "and the command was divided...
...Chiapas, for now Zedillo has some breathing room. Recognizing that he | had to defuse the situation quickly, last week he drew back an army buildup around rebel areas and accepted the rebel demand that Bishop Samuel Ruiz help negotiate peace. But in his new economic plan he is certain to defer his election promise that 1995 will be the year that prosperity will trickle down to the masses. That could mean the kind of social discontent that launched Mexico on its most recent cycle of headaches. Welcome to the nightmare...