Word: cures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imitative, and other, more profound T-shirt themes abound. Other mottoes include, "It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, it's where you go to school," "They may beat us on the field, We will beat them off," and, "Harvard's the disease, Yale's the Cure...
...cure for the disease is discovered, but when it is suggested that the same cure be given to poor black youngsters, the public balks. The courts defend the exclusion of Blacks from treatment on the grounds that since the disease itself afflicted whites, the cure could be limited to caucasians on medical and not racial grounds. Such are the limits of the "Equal Protection Clause...
...greenback must continue to fall, say many economists and now the Administration, if the U.S. is to curb its ruinous trade deficit. But no one can argue that such a strategy offers a simple and painless cure for America's economic ills. On the contrary, the perils are enormous and the effectiveness is uncertain. The immediate challenge for the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury is to control the dollar's descent -- no easy feat -- and prevent a free fall, which would scare off foreign investors, drive up U.S. interest rates and perhaps cause another panic on Wall Street...
...home, my beautiful home! My children's educations! Expensive schools! My clothes! My dinner! My dollars!" All true, every sorrowful word. People have been mourning the passing of their money for all the things that money can do, and what money can do is impressive. Money can build cities, cure cancers, win wars. The sudden acquisition of the stuff can toss our spirits into the air like a hat. The sudden disappearance of the stuff can freeze us witless before the ticker...
When the world needs him most, Reagan seems weirdly lost. Neither Congress nor the 1988 candidates appear ready to take charge. -- Raise taxes? Cut spending? Or what? After years of festering, economic problems are far harder to cure. -- Wildly fluctuating, the market rallies slightly despite a collapse of the dollar. -- Some firms cut back, fearing a recession. See THE CRASH...