Word: deal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflation, there will be some difficult periods to go through. The sooner, the faster we do it, the less gradual approach we adopt, the better chance we have to succeed, to turn the corner. I am very encouraged that part of Volcker's approach is an attempt to deal also with the problems posed by the Eurocurrency market. He emphasized more than before the rate of money supply growth on this market, rather than interest rates. That is the right emphasis...
...last deal of a high-stakes poker game, the London talks on Zimbabwe Rhodesia finished their fifth week with the chips piled high and the hole cards down. But the players left the table with the cards unturned as British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, chairman of the Lancaster House Conference, abruptly suspended negotiations. That was Carrington's response after a second refusal by Patriotic Front Co-Leaders Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo to accept a British-drafted constitution. The talks could not resume, said Carrington, until the guerrilla leaders approved the latest plan "without ambiguity...
...Pope's moral stands deal with sex and complex history...
...small, but it is nimble. Last week American Motors Corp., which produces only 1.83% of the nation's cars, swung a deal with Renault, the French-owned automaker, that should help it cope with the expected demand for small, gas-stingy cars. AMC will get $150 million from Renault, $50 million in credits, and the rights to build the French company's newly designed front-wheel-drive car starting in 1982. The U.S. firm would thus have an entry to challenge General Motors' X-body compact cars, which are now being marketed, and the new models that...
...true life circumstances by the end of the novel, McKay first undertakes a long fictional journey to Kansas and back. McMahon has given him depth, complicated his life, and intersected his life with other', real and fictional. But in the end the real McKay surfaces, a great deal more intriguing for the reader than such a philanthropist would have appeared in fact. McKay's Bees makes a mockery of historical fiction, upsetting its priorities and challenging its authors' imagination...