Word: crisises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Bush Administration moved swiftly to avert any sense of crisis after the market closed. Declared Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady: "It's important to recognize that today's stock market decline doesn't signal any fundamental change in the condition of the economy. The economy remains well balanced, and the...
ANOTHER disclaimer is in order here. I don't believe that simply scrapping rent control would solve the housing crisis. Free-marketeers don't recognize that the people who get left out of the housing market face a fate worse than those who bid too low in the Ec 10...
An aborted coup attempt in Panama raises disturbing questions about the Bush Administration's ability to respond to a crisis. -- After a series of concessions to the Democrats, Bush is wooing the right. -- Congress takes an expensive step toward a national family policy.
Like Simpson, many of those caught up in the spiraling AIDS epidemic are awash in medical expenses they cannot afford. And the safety net beneath them has proved less than reassuring. Since the AIDS crisis began in the early 1980s, the nation's private health-care industry -- hospitals, insurance companies...
The mounting bills for AIDS patients have renewed a call in some quarters for a national medical-care system. "Optimistically, AIDS will push this country into getting universal health insurance," says New York City Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph. "Or we may be reduced to narrow-minded scrambling to see who...