Word: dampener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIME board cautioned, however, that the bloated trade deficit cannot be completely closed in the foreseeable future, so imports will continue to dampen growth. "The pillars of our export strength are badly eroded," said Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust. He noted that the U.S. is losing some of its foreign farm sales because output abroad is up sharply. Concurred Robert Hormats, a vice president of the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs and a guest at last week's meeting: "Europe is exporting poultry, beef and all the things we sold them...
Duarte has confidence aplenty: the question is whether he can dampen El Salvador's passions or, instead, will further inflame them. One concern: too much flaunting by the President of his new strength might lead to an upsurge in death-squad activity by right-wing extremists. Last week the President took pains to show that his aim will be to encourage moderation. Said he: "We're going to build a government of tolerance, not a sectarian government." Most of his countrymen seem to agree with that...
...Sullivan and others are gambling on the notion that the new requirements imposed on building will not adversely affect construction and dampen the current commercial boom. They figure that developers will still want to take advantage of Cambridge's prestigious address and companies will continue to prize access to university brain-power and facilities enough to bear what Sullivan estimates is a modest three percent increase in costs...
Foreign observers are fairly confident that they know the name of Chernenko's stand-in at the top of the Kremlin pyramid: Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev, 53. During Gorbachev's highly publicized trip to Britain last December, officials in the Soviet entourage made no effort to dampen assertions in the British press that their boss was Moscow's de facto...
Schroeder had to settle for a glass of ice chips, but that did not dampen his spirits. Later he demanded to know the time. "Six o'clock," replied DeVries. Schroeder looked skeptically at the lanky surgeon who had saved his life, pointed to a clock on the wall and wagged a finger. Wrong, he said. The clock showed that it was only five minutes before the hour...