Word: copes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Local merchants could no longer let their fingers do the walking. "I drove to 30 offices the other day to post a new listing," moaned Real Estate Broker Marge Novak. To cope with municipal business, Hinsdale Village Manager Ron Ruskey installed a cellular phone in his briefcase. Eight police cars with two-way radios were posted to permanent stations around town to help residents report emergencies. When students realized that attendance officers could not call home to check up on them, Hinsdale schools reported a sudden surge in truancies. Patients found they could not call their doctors, and the emergency...
...freeze on $50 million in Panamanian bank accounts in the U.S. and suspension of trade preferences on $96 million in annual commerce between the two countries. The moves were expected to paralyze Panama's economy and spark internal pressure for Noriega's departure. But Panamanians are learning to cope with the cash shortage, and the U.S. sanctions may be causing only longer-term damage to Panama's economy...
With the economy in danger of overheating, inflation may take off. -- A lucky class of '88. -- Panamanians cope with sanctions...
When Eliahu Ben-Elissar, a member of the conservative Likud Party, charged that Palestinians in the occupied territories are "sending out children and women to the streets to cope with Israeli soldiers," cries of outrage erupted in the audience. When he claimed further that the Jewish concern for women and children is something that "is not known in, maybe, your circles," the comment was hotly denounced by the Palestinians as an "outright racist statement." In the midst of this tinderbox, Koppel handled himself with poise / and scrupulous fairness, trying his best (not always successfully) to cut short rambling speeches...
...some of which were shown at the Dallas Apparel Mart in March. But like the clothes, many of the products they want to make are already produced in abundant quantities elsewhere. Meanwhile, their Western partners, who are mainly eager to sell products and services in the Soviet Union, must cope with the nonconvertibility of Soviet currency. No matter how profitable a Soviet joint venture may be, U.S. companies have little use for rubles...