Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YORK--The battered stock market landed on its feet again yesterday, with prices sharply higher and the Dow Jones industrial average achieving its third-biggest gain ever despite weaknesses in the dollar and in some overseas stock exchanges...
...result? A dollar over-valued by 40percent; a 40 percent tax on all exports; a 40percent discount on all imports, [and] a nationaldebt of two trillion dollars," Dukakis said...
...White House of an end to be achieved in the Gulf, or of a recalulcation of our reason for being there in light of the evidence that our presence seems to be helping the Iranians. And our forces in the area are sadly ill-suited for their job: multibillion dollar supercarriers and their escorts are not quite what you want chasing down Revolutionary Guards in glorified Boston Whalers...
...Either the stock market crashes or the dollar crashes," Thurow said...
...when it comes down to paying thousand dollar tuition increases each year and bearing a greater burden of the budget, these thoughts offer little comfort. If the market drops even further, then maybe Harvard's endowment will get the sinking feeling we have each and every year when we open the mail to find the biggest term bill ever...