Word: cline
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delegates avoided even hinting that they might repudiate their debts, realizing that any refusal to repay past borrowings would mean the certain cutoff of future loans. In Washington, William Cline, senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics, said, "No major debtor wants to jeopardize its long-run credit reputation further by joining anything that has the appearance of a cartel for debt moratorium or repudiation purposes...
Rita Dybdahl Cline...
...find it less expensive to drive big cars and more attractive to turn up their thermostats. Businesses would think twice about buying costly new energy-efficient equipment. Some economists fear that the industrial nations could once again become dangerously dependent on unstable and unreliable foreign oil supplies. Says William Cline, a fellow at Washington's Institute for International Economics: "We could be on a roller coaster, and if the price drops too low, it could later shoot up again even higher, say to $50 a barrel...
...will work. They foresee the growth of a vast underground network for illegal trading in dollars. Says Ricardo Pascoe, a spokesman for the Revolutionary Workers Party: "My feeling is that it's nearly impossible to control the black market." American experts on Mexico share that skepticism. Says William Cline, a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics in Washington: "Exchange controls are troubling. As a general rule, they don't work very well, and in the special case of Mexico, they'll be even tougher to enforce because of that country's long border with...
...just as surely as dropping bombs on a country." Others view the notion of hit teams as an inevitable escalation in the level of terrorism of the past few years. "It's ironic that in this day, this era, people are surprised," says Ray Cline, executive director at Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies. "As an educational exercise for the American public, I suppose it [the story of the hit teams] may be a good thing. It will alert Americans to the number of violence-prone governments that would have no hesitation in putting out a contract...