Word: closely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...held sway in Asia by a combination of Pax Americana and the almighty dollar. Uncle Sam has defended his friends against Communist expansionism while providing aid and guaranteeing markets. Now Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union is behaving less like the Big Bad Bear. The Soviets may well close their naval and air facilities in Viet Nam and continue to foster peace on the Korean peninsula. Many in the area believe it is only a matter of time before the U.S. withdraws from its own bases in the Philippines and removes its ground troops from South Korea...
Because Sears will have to put new price tags on 1.5 billion items, the company will close more than 800 of its stores for 42 hours this week. The move is part of Sears' new strategy, announced last October, to compete aggressively with such discounters as Wal-Mart and Target...
Bush, for whom loyalty is close to a religion, quickly announced that he would carry the fight to the Senate floor. A vote by the full chamber may take place this week, assuming Tower does not take the White House off the hook by withdrawing. Considering that the Democrats hold a 55-to-45 majority -- and that, for all the sanctimonious clucking about Tower's personal habits, last week's vote was overtly partisan -- Bush is likely to suffer a second and perhaps more damaging loss...
After the latest numbers became public, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gave moneymen an anxiety attack by his frank acknowledgment of the problem. Testifying before Congress, Greenspan called the CPI report "disturbing" because it suggested that the U.S. economy was close to overheating despite the Fed's eleven-month effort to slow it down by subtly tightening the credit supply. Noting that last week's report followed January's startling 1% rise in the Wholesale Price Index, a leap of 12.7% on a compounded annual basis, Greenspan warned, "If inflation re-emerges, I think a recession will move...
...lighter note, Mailer said he suspected the odds against a customer suffering harm while browsing at a bookstore were close to 100,000 to 1. "Such odds, if widely promulgated," he observed, "would have brought in many prospective customers looking for the spice of a very small risk." ; Biographer Robert Massie, president of the 6,500-member Authors Guild, offered a practical suggestion: he urged writers to ask publishers to withdraw their books from chains that had removed the Rushdie novel from their shelves...