Word: deficit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scott's batterymate, Gary Miller, was a principal thorn in the side of four Boston College pitchers. Miller stroked a 350-foot home run in the fourth to bring the Crimson back from a 2-0 deficit. Miller had two hits and two walks on the day, and scored twice...
Beneath this veneer, however, Yugoslavia began to price itself out of world markets; its trade deficit rose to a record $424 million, draining off the country's scant reserves of foreign exchange. Many factories were forced to halt imports of raw materials, slow down production lines and lay off workers. Faced with creeping unemployment and mounting foreign debts, the government has turned westward for help on two fronts: it is exporting tens of thousands of workers to temporary jobs in labor-short Western Europe, and it is shopping for loans in the U.S. and elsewhere in the capitalist world...
...States, the New York World's Fair came out for the second round last week. Everybody in volved - from terrible-tempered Robert Moses down - was determined to profit by experience. And profit was of the essence: the fair's first season ran up a rocking $17.5 million deficit and sent four pavilions into bankruptcy...
...force to be reckoned with: he heads a proudly independent agency and is the U.S. economic official most closely heeded by Europe's central bankers, who consider him the staunchest guardian of U.S. fiscal responsibility. Last week it became clear that Martin is helping to fight the payments deficit and gold outflow by slowly raising short-term interest rates-a move that pleases the foreign bankers more than it pleases Johnson, an easy-money man. The Federal Reserve reported that its member banks' cash reserves are at a five-year...
...Aniline's), which normally bleed cash from other stocks, and it has weathered the usual rush of tax selling before April 15. On the international front, the U.S.'s military gains in Viet Nam, the nation's apparently successful campaign to narrow its balance-of-payments deficit and Britain's determination to solve its problems with a belt-tightening budget have generally given Wall Street a more positive outlook. Then, of course, there are all those record corporate profits (up some 9% in the first quarter) and bright economic indicators at home (see THE NATION...