Word: buoyant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cuban economy is in tatters, but certainly not "back where it started as a one-crop sugar producer." Cuba's economy before Castro was buoyant and quite diversified, although the sugar industry was the basic business, just as steel is in this country. Contrary to what you say, Castro is a very real threat. Nevertheless, your portrayal of Brother Raúl as the archetype of the bastard is quite accurate. NÉSTOR E. CRUZ GAVALDÁ Villanova University...
...launching of the Tokyo Maru symbolized a major change in the nature of Japan's long-buoyant economy. Japan lives by trade, and for years that trade was produced chiefly by its light industry, which flooded world markets with cameras, transistor radios and miniature TV sets. Today, by contrast, Japan's heavy industry, particularly steel and shipbuilding, accounts for the major portion of the country's exports. Japanese yards have 7,800,000 tons of new ships under construction or on order, will sell 75% of the total to foreign buyers. Overall, exports rose 27% last year...
...million deficit three years ago to a profit of $14 million last year. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines last month announced its first profitable quarter in five years-$4,000,000 in earnings for the April-June period. Rising on the New York Stock Exchange along with the buoyant stocks of U.S. airlines-which are also having an excellent year-KLM stock in the last two weeks has gained 18 points, closing...
Armed with sturdy inner tubes, floppy hats, buoyant coolers full of iced beer cans, and an extra car to leave downstream for the trip back, enthusiasts simply stake out a docile stretch of river, plop themselves into the tube's cool well, and float downstream. When the afternoon is over, the tuber is sun-kissed but cool, refreshed but relaxed, with nary an aching muscle. "Tubing," says one insider, "is not tiring." Without once passing beyond the perimeter of his patched piece of commercial refuse, he has communed with nature far more intimately than the man who has played...
Because of the inevitability of some slack-off in steel-and because a growing number of economists see signs that the nation's 50-month-long expansion has finished its most buoyant ascent-Ackley and his aides are quietly trying to balance the widespread business optimism with some hard-eyed realism. Said Ackley: "We will not be led into the mistake of assuming that continuing gains at the recent rate are assured for the second half of the year." In the months ahead, Ackley feels, the automobile and steel industries cannot be counted on to supply further great gains...