Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...willing to be totally irrational for a few hours some day, Blue Pastoral can be a great deal of fun. But don't be surprised if you need a cool drink after hurling the book across the room...
...chairman must cool off money growth without halting the recovery...
...billion foreign debt was coming due, and the country had no way to pay. A team of tightfisted negotiators from the International Monetary Fund was in the capital city of Brasília demanding that in exchange for new loans the government had to curb its spending and cool inflation, which reached an annual rate of 180% during the first half of the year. Meanwhile, Brazilians, incensed by austerity measures already taken, were striking and taking to the streets...
Brazil's leaders have come to recognize that one of the main causes of the country's problems is its indexation system, which makes inflation difficult to cool off once it heats up. The program unveiled last week is the first major step toward dismantling that system. In the past, price rises have led to automatic hikes of comparable size in wages, pensions, interest rates and other payments. When indexation went into general use in 1973, government economists thought it would insulate people from the worst effects of inflation. The problem, however, was that unusual price hikes caused...
...have heard it coming or guessed or lucked out, but whatever, the freewheeling, free-form sound that critics are calling the New Music slips neatly into Bowie's own new groove. If it is casual and a little cool, a little anonymous and a touch technocratic, then it must be New Music and Let's Dance. Talking about the album, Bowie can sound almost evangelistic, like Billy Graham on a crusade. He speaks of "positive music, something that has an inward glow to it, something that still has something to say but is more than the general kind of nihilistic...