Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should come down, from a 9.9% rate through December to 7% next year, dropping to around 4% by 1986. Interest rates should go down from 13.6% now on 91-day Treasury bills to 5.5% in 1986. At the same time, contends the Administration, the federal budget deficit should almost disappear as rising productivity and increased employment combine to increase federal revenues and wipe out the loss to the Treasury from the tax cuts. By 1984, according to this rosy projection, the deficit should have shrunk from around $55 billion next year to a minuscule $2.2 billion-though even that could...
...often seems as though our British monarchy, along with our secret intelligence service, represents the only appurtenance of national greatness still extant. And even the intelligence network, it must be admitted, has of late been showing unmistakable signs of decomposition as the moles and countermoles surface and then disappear...
...course of 50 years of knockabout journalism, I have seen too many upheavals of one sort and another to feel any certainty about anything or anyone in the decades ahead. Popularity, however seemingly strong and widespread, can evaporate in an afternoon, and institutions that have lasted for centuries disappear overnight. So I can but conclude by simply saying, "God bless the Prince and Princess of Wales." -By Malcolm Muggeridge
Just as the high rates crimp the Government, so too do they squeeze businesses. Customers have less to spend, company overhead goes up and profits disappear. In recent months, that grim pattern has become a fact of life for more and more businesses. The gathering retrenchment is an important reason that practically every major indicator of future economic activity, from orders for machine tools by businesses to the issuance of construction permits for new homes, is now flat or pointing down...
Joyce, a 26-year-old woman from Georgia, met her husband Don in 1972, six months after he returned from Viet Nam. He told her funny stories about the war. He did not tell her the scary ones about how, as a scout for the 101st Airborne, he would disappear into the jungle to search out enemy positions and kill Viet Cong stragglers. Joyce and Don were married. Then Don began an agony of delayed stress: sudden flashbacks, explosions of anger, a restlessness that propelled him from job to job. Joyce heard about the Atlanta vet center...