Word: cools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale had not set out in cool calculation to make a choice that would imprint his name on the pages of American political-history books. Nor had the idea of selecting a woman hit him in a flash of inspiration. It had evolved, growing in fits and starts. Mondale's musing about the possibility began last fall when his vaunted political machine seemed on the verge of locking up the nomination almost before the primaries began. Hart's upset victory in the New Hampshire primary in February rudely suspended such thinking, which did not resume in earnest until May. Said...
...cool rationalism of such an approach is well suited to its purveyors. Those who articulate it best-like Congressmen Richard Gephardt of Missouri and Timothy Wirth of Colorado and Senators Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Dodd of Connecticut-tend to share a generational outlook. They are the post-Viet Nam generation, liberal but nondogmatic...
...huge, low banks of moisture. Then, as temperatures rise and the atmospheric pressure falls in the Central Valley to the east of the city, these formations are sucked inland. Since San Francisco Bay is the only sea-level passage through Northern California's coastal mountain chain, the cool ocean air carrying the fog funnels into the city en route to the valley. The fog's swirls and twirls produce "microclimates," neighborhood-to-neighborhood variations in sunlight and temperature...
...That harsh remedy began to work: the trade deficit for the first five months of 1984 was 25% less than for the same period of 1983. Unemployment remains low by Western standards (5.7%), but many Israelis fear that it will continue to rise if measures are taken to cool inflation...
Another choice would simply have been to accept the strict conditions the IMF had set for getting new loans, including no growth in wages and sharp slowdowns in government spending to cool off the country's hyperinflation of about 570% annually. That would have meant an immediate cash infusion of $1 billion and restored the country's reputation with the financial community. But politically the aftershock could have been devastating. Widespread strikes and rioting would probably have followed, threatening Alfonsin's young democratic government. Some union leaders, allied with the opposition Peronist party, predicted "social convulsion...