Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hallanan, who would like to start her own magazine someday, the stories she heard will serve as guidance about what to do -- and what not to do. But then Hallanan also has a role model closer to home: her mother has owned a real estate firm since 1984. "Many of those I spoke with saw starting a business as an outgrowth of the balancing act that so many of them perform at home, from budgeting the grocery list to planning family vacations," she says. "Being an entrepreneur and a woman can be a 36-hour...
...magnitude is hard to see with the naked eye. Some fields are parched out, and crops are plainly scraggly. But the patchwork of greens and golds still reels by under jet wings heading west. The great shoulders of the Rockies have some snow on them still. It takes a closer inspection and a conditioned eye for full understanding. The trees of Minneapolis hide devastated home lawns and gardens. Out West, dry-weather weeds have sprung up in the draws of prairie pastures, adding deceptive color. All through the Midwest are fields of wheat, corn and soybeans that took root much...
Another custody matter, this one involving the U.S., moved a step closer to resolution in Britain's favor. Attorney General Edwin Meese ordered that Joseph Doherty, a Northern Ireland fugitive convicted of killing a British army captain in 1980, should be deported to Britain rather than Ireland. Doherty, who entered the U.S. illegally in 1982 after escaping from a Belfast jail, faces life behind bars if he is sent to Britain. Meese's action was the Reagan Administration's latest effort to sidestep federal court decisions holding that Doherty is exempt from extradition to Britain on the grounds that...
...Congress, searching for ways to cut the overall budget deficit, are in no mood to give the military any increase. According to Les Aspin, the Wisconsin Democrat who heads the House Armed Services Committee, the slash in Pentagon budget authority over the next five years is likely to be "closer to $422 billion" than to Carlucci's figures...
...prevent such an outcome, we have individually pledged to take the actions outlined below. In general, we intend to bring our growth rates into closer alignment to help correct trade imbalances. To reduce exchange-rate volatility, our central banks will agree to specific ranges within which currencies will be allowed to fluctuate. We will not hesitate to use all available means, including central-bank intervention in the foreign-exchange markets and adjustments in our interest-rate policies, to make sure that the currencies stay within these so-called target zones...