Word: developers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dollar terms as the U.S. currency declined in worth and thus drove up the nation's import bill. As Americans lose some of their appetite for increasingly expensive foreign goods, importers are expected to cut back sharply on their orders. But that trend has been very slow to develop, and TIME's economists do not foresee a significant lowering of the trade deficit until 1987. One reason for the delay is that the dollar has not diminished in value at all against the currencies of such fast-growing exporters as South Korea and Taiwan. Many American consumers are now buying...
...Argentina, Britain and France are all seeking to sell off state-owned businesses and to promote free enterprise." Associate Editor John Greenwald, who wrote the main story in the section, adds, "The comeback of capitalism was a leitmotiv of the conference, and it is one of the significant developments of the 1980s. Governments everywhere, even in China, are finding that free enterprise is the way to develop their countries...
...than the orderly but often empty stores in so many socialist states. Capitalism's unruliness means that it will always be subject to swings of boom and bust. The system, however, presents the constant opportunity for profit and for improvement of the individual's lot. Countries that want to develop quickly or stay abreast in a rapidly changing economic world are finding themselves drawn to free enterprise, which lets people loose so that they can lose their economic shackles...
...more robust economic life, and the record of delivery is good. "Private enterprise is now the universal belief," says Bernardo Villegas, chief economist for the Center for Research and Communication in the Philippines. Leaders in Africa, Asia and Latin America are increasingly turning to free markets to develop impoverished economies and catch up with the rest of the world...
...addition, Aliens' minor characters, although at first they seem like B-movie stereotypes, all develop individual personalities of their own, a rarity in a horror film. The group of Marines includes Vasquez, the Hispanic tough macho lesbian, who ends up sacrificing herself for the rest of the crew; Hodgson, a dumb, smartass soldier whose terrified vulnerability in the face of the aliens makes him human after all; and a mean drill sargeant with a dry wit who has one of the film's greatest lines. Cameron manages to work in just enough comic relief to keep the audience from breaking...