Word: complexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other monies. Under the system of floating exchange rates that has prevailed for the past dozen years, governments can try only to influence the decisions of money traders and their clients, who can switch tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars within hours (see box). And many complex factors have been keeping the dollar high. To bring about a deep and lasting drop may require not only prolonged and heavy sales of dollars by the U.S. and its allies but fundamental changes in their economic policies, above all a much greater reduction in the U.S. budget deficit than...
...that two-thirds of NTT is being sold to private investors, the government has pledged that outsiders will be able to sell more products to the company. Last week NTT announced its first major cooperative agreement with a U.S. corporation: a joint venture with IBM to build a complex computer network in Japan...
...with a U.S. Treasury check for $1 million as a down payment on further American relief efforts. During a four-hour, 15-minute visit to the capital, she spent 20 minutes with President de la Madrid at his official Los Pinos residence. Later Mrs. Reagan drove to the residential complex of Tlatelolco, where a 13- story apartment building had collapsed. She commiserated with Spanish Tenor Placido Domingo, who had come to Mexico City to discover the whereabouts of relatives believed to be buried in the ruins of the building...
...addition, without a union workers must currently undertake tedious and complex grievance procedures just to register complaints or concerns. With the employees spread throughout College and graduate school offices, the central voice of a union would be the only viable means available for staff to raise issues such as comparable worth and health effects of extensive computer...
...restlessness. Sitting in a hotel room, the world-weary traveller idly muses on the idea of calling his next book "The Accidental Tourist At Home." At one point, in lonely desperation, he considers faking a coronary just to feel the soothing touch of a human hand. Tyler's complex ironies offer no easy solution to the quest for home. Rather than bringing him neatly full circle back to familiar territory, Macon's odyssey leaves him in Oz. It is in this world of peculiar intimacies, where strangers become family and families remain strangers, that Tyler's remedy for homesickness offers...