Word: closely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once the current series of major appointments is behind him, President Bok may be free to consider bringing his 18-year presidency to a close. Bok himself has hinted recently that he is thinking of moving...
This long-term planning was overshadowed much of last semester as the dean search drew student and faculty frustrations close to the surface. With a new dean expected to address key issues such as minority groups' calls for greater campus representation and the deep rift between radical and more conservative faculty members, outbreaks of protest marked the Law School scene...
Even before the figures came out, a Japanese official warned the U.S. against weakening the dollar as a trade-gap remedy. Makoto Utsumi, a senior executive in the Finance Ministry, declared that a further fall of the dollar against the yen would not close the trade gap because Japanese firms would lay off workers and take other steps to remain competitive. A cheaper dollar, said Utsumi, would simply "make America for sale...
...stuck my fist through, indentations in walls I kicked." Chamberlain grew so despondent, he recalls, that he "held a gun to my head once or twice." Others have succeeded in committing suicide. Warns Aaron Henry, 22, a St. Charles, Mo., drug counselor whose adolescent dependence on steroids drove him close to physical and mental ruin: "When you put big egos and big dreams together with steroids, that's a nasty combination...
...last week received a decidedly chilly reception. Designed to slash the country's 1,580% inflation rate and to attack the $66 billion national debt, the plan will freeze prices, abolish automatic wage hikes and devalue the Brazilian cruzado by 16.4% in relation to the dollar. The government will close six out of 27 ministries, and promises to fire 60,000 employees. Brazil is temporarily suspending any further debt-for- equity swaps with foreign banks and refuses to rule out a new moratorium on payments toward its $115 billion foreign debt...