Word: depression
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does not depress me," says acting HIID Director Richard Pagett. "But it would be disingenuous to say its business as usual here. It creates a morale problem--we've got 200 people who are going through a pretty tough time right...
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...most serious threat to world financial and economic health is a collapse of the U.S. dollar, which could come when foreign investors finally deem the current account deficit to be out of hand. That would make the U.S. less attractive to foreign investors and depress the stock market, turning the wealth effect that has made Americans so willing to buy on credit into a bad hangover. And if Americans curtail their buying, that will kill the main engine of recent U.S. expansion, which in turn will stunt other economies, particularly Asian and Latin American countries that aim to build their...
There are no easy answers to the mounting U.S. current account imbalance. The normal strategy would be for Washington to raise interest rates, but that would create a vicious circle: depress the stock market, diminish consumer spending and drive foreign money away. Lipp hopes the threat of a recession would provoke quick agreement among the G-7 countries to cut interest rates and taxes. But Hormats cautioned that in the U.S. there's no prospect of easy accord between Clinton and the Republican Congress on cutting taxes or, even harder, deficit spending. Expect a lot of Washington jawboning this year...
Kidder explained that stereotypes and other influences in the testing milieu may artificially depress the performance of minority students...