Word: deficits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aerospace would be a serious blow to U.S. industrial might. American manufacturers exported $26.9 billion worth of passenger planes and military aircraft and missiles in 1988, which gave the U.S. a $17.9 billion surplus in aerospace trade. These were precious exports, considering that the U.S. ran an overall trade deficit of $119.8 billion last year; the gap with Japan alone was $52.1 billion. U.S. trade woes were underscored last week when the Government reported that the deficit during February widened to $10.5 billion, up 21% from the previous month. The major cause: a fresh flood of imports from Japan...
...fear of being parodied in Doonesbury enough to account for a statewide charisma deficit? Deukmejian, who established an organization called Citizens for Common Sense, is so unadventurous that George Bush makes jokes about him. The most exciting thing about Pete Wilson -- dubbed one of the more anonymous people in American politics -- was his showing up on the Senate floor straight from the hospital in his pajamas to cast an important vote. Wilson was so unremarkable during his first term that one-third of California voters were unable even to rate his performance...
...phalanx of congressional leaders strolled into the Rose Garden last Friday morning to announce that they had hammered out the 1990 budget concordat. Now, in updated fashion, Rose Garden rubbish can also be defined as "the unveiling of a cynical, bipartisan arrangement to avoid difficult decisions on the deficit through the use of artful arithmetic, Panglossian projections and other green-eyeshade gimmickry...
Although Tsongas is working for a solution for Massachusetts, the problem of an increasingly unqualified work force and low productivity is national in scope. The United States trade deficit remains high, even with the fall of the dollar...
Several other Harvard-affiliated hospitals have been feeling the crunch, according to city Health and Hospitals Commissioner Melvin H. Chalfen. Massachusetts General, the University's largest teaching hospital, recently announced layoffs and built a deficit into its budget for next year, he said...