Word: devel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neighboring Brazil, government leaders found themselves painfully squeezed between the IMF and its sister agency, the World Bank. The bank wants to lend Brazil $1.4 billion for major devel opment projects, but the credit has been held up because it would swell Brazil's money supply beyond limits set by the IMF as a condition...
Phone-company officials report that an odd psychology appears to have devel oped among users of America's 183 million telephones. If anything goes wrong now, they blame it on divestiture. Says Illinois Bell's Patricia Montgomery: "A woman called to complain about some problems, which were caused by water seeping into the system. No amount of explaining could convince her that it was because of a wet cable, not divestiture." Another Illinois customer groused that the phone company was "driving up the cost of service," when in fact his most recent local-service bill was $21.93, only...
...peripheral vision is usually good," he said quietly over and over, "but it failed me." Thompson, observing from across the locker room, said softly: "It's a hard lesson in a national championship, but it's part of his maturity and educational devel opment." For a moment, education re turned to college basketball...