Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jump down off the screen and into the dusty Mexican streets is garbled in transmission; to the trio it reads like a bid to make a profitable personal appearance. And it arrives when they need money; their studio boss (Joe Mantegna) has fired them for making an outrageous salary demand: payment in cash rather than in freebies...
...already uneasy about De Larosiere's last big initiative, a $12.5 billion rescue package for Mexico that called for private creditors to accept a stretched-out payment schedule for about half the country's $98 billion debt. The creditors fear that other major debtors, like Brazil and Argentina, will demand similar concessions. Camdessus' main challenge is to continue the delicate process of helping Third World debtors reduce their obligations, while avoiding the spark that could ignite a destructive chain reaction of defaults...
...word: act. Fire Chief of Staff Donald Regan or CIA Director William Casey, or both, as proof that the Administration intends to make a fresh start. Call the key figures in the Iran arms-contra funds scandal, Oliver North and John Poindexter, into the Oval Office and demand from them an accounting of their activities. But above all, do something. Don't just wait for inquisitive journalists, congressional investigators or, eventually, an independent counsel to force out all the facts about North's sticky web of arms and money dealings. That will only intensify the drip, drip, drip of daily...
...particularly needs to improve its export sales, because the economy is unlikely to benefit from any significant gain in spending among American consumers next year. Since the recovery is so far along, much of the demand for major items, such as houses and autos, that built up during the last recession has been satisfied. While consumers remain fairly confident, they have already gone on an extended shopping spree paid for by a heavy load of installment debt. Just this past fall, millions of consumers rushed to the auto showrooms to take advantage of cut-rate financing offers. "They...
...return to the bottle. The combination of cost-control efforts, evidence on extreme variations in practice patterns, the growing strength of purchasers, and the apparent oversupply of both hospital beds and physicians--perhaps 200,000 American hospital beds will be closed between 1980 and 1990--has made the demand for information on quality of care now irresistable...