Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reform. The report on the crash from the presidential commission headed by Nicholas Brady (now Secretary of the Treasury) is a dead letter. The only result appears to be the adoption of "circuit breakers," which would temporarily halt trading during a steep market plunge. That is not a cure for the disease that brought...
ALLENDE'S novel focuses on the story of Eva Luna, whose name, she says, means "I am life". A natural narrator, she tells us that she was conceived as part of a cure for a native Indian who was poisoned by a snake bite. As her parents are dead, her story centers on her life in the capital city, presumably Caracas, where she works as a domestic servant. Her only companions are her adopted grandmother, Elvira, who sleeps in a coffin every night to avoid spending extra money on a bed, and her godmother, whose head, Eva says, is addled...
...case, inequality is a subject that must be addressed -- and not just by hoping that continued economic growth will automatically cure it. The danger is that growing disparities in wealth and living standards will undermine the sense of community and of financial optimism that have kept America from being riven by class resentments...
...broad decontrols in the southern province of Guangdong enacted experimentally in November 1987 were eventually accepted. Others are not so sure. Su Shaozhi, China's most eminent ideologist, is convinced that Communist states, as currently constituted, are "societies of scarcity of supply and excess demand." The only way to cure that dilemma, he argues, is to permit political pluralism, giving workers a voice in running the economic system in return for their sacrifices...
Everyone has answers. But there's only one cure: winning. The Crimson is now playing a must-win season. One more loss, even one more tie, will hurt...