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...tragedy is that the President's ideological rigidity seems certain toe choke off the promising long-term features of his new Caribbean policy. For the next 12 years, almost all basin exports to the United States will be duty-free; as a result, most experts agree, the President's initiative will likely stimulate the creation of many new products. And by calling for increased technology transfers and the teaching of marketing strategies. Reagan just might insure the region's future competitively in agriculture and industry. Additional U.S. financial assistance will probably bail out countries like Honduras and Costa Rica, enabling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan's New Plan | 3/5/1982 | See Source »

...greatest worry of economists, however, was not the reduction of social programs but that the huge deficits would force interest rates still higher and choke off the general economic recovery Reagan's advisers are predicting for later this year (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Deficit: A Line Drawn in the Dirt | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...only once in the last 16 years--in 1976. They've been the losers in the last three finals, and in the past two years strong seasons have been cut short by upset losses in the playoffs. As much as it annoys the Eagles, many have labelled them a "choke" team...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Eagles, Huskies Set to Scrap | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...fans. Following his team's 9-0 shellacking, Army coach Paul Assaiante offered the evaluation that, "although Princeton's pretty tough on racket skills, Harvard's probably better." "In other words," Crimson number two Geordie Lemmon paraphrasea the Cadet mentor, "He's telling us, 'Don't get excited and choke...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: Crimson Crushes Cadets; Brog Topples No. 1 Tiger | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

...Patricia Neal Story (CBS). Prime time offered enough triumph-over-a-bizarre-disease TV movies to choke a hospital, but Dirk Bogarde and the redoubtable Glenda Jackson made this particular version wrenching and true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Best of 1981: Video | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

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