Word: delay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cover them, is preventing interest rates from falling-which they must if there is to be any strong recovery from the recession. If there is no budget, or if Congress passes one with deficit estimates that the financial community finds unacceptable, interest rates will surely stay high. That would delay, weaken or even prevent economic recovery-and provoke exactly the voter outrage that Congress fears...
...same time, some basic expectations are declining from one generation to the next. Children expect to have less than their parents, but they have different priorities: a foreign car rather than a Chevrolet. People spend more on trendy items but delay in buying a home...
...just that. They ask, among other things, that chapter seven bankruptcies be restricted to those who can prove their inability to make future repayments, and that the exemption of assets be reduced. The Senate is expected to pass such a bill this summer, though the House may well delay action...
...Winthrop House Master James A. Davis noted that the delay won "a bit of blessing," saying, "it meant that we didn't have noise and construction during exams...
...miles, and resorts in the Keys began reporting a drop of as much as 40% in tourist business. Key West symbolically seceded from the Union, and local officials begged Washington to call a halt. The only change, however, has been less strict checking to eliminate most of the delay...