Word: dominos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congressional leaders. United Nations Ambassador Jeane J. Kirk Patrick and National Security Advisor William P. Clark warned Congress that the situation in El Salvador was deteriorating rapidly and the Salvadoran army was waging an increasing uphill battle against the leftists. And Reagan himself conjured up images of the infamous "domino theory" by stating, "We believe that the government of El Salvador is on the front line of a battle that is really aimed at the very heart of the Western Hemisphere, and eventually...
...other hand, as worldwide economic growth has slumped deeper and interest rates have shot up alarmingly, defaults and reschedulings of commercial bank loans have multiplied, raising fears of a kind of domino effect of international banking collapses. That grim prospect came uncomfortably close to actuality last month when Mexico declared it could not make its payments. Such action would have left such blue-chip U.S. lenders as BankAmerica, Chase Manhattan and Citicorp holding bad loans of more than $10 billion...
...second peso devalua tion in six months. Most was Silva Herzog's admission that Mexico was unable to meet current payments on its huge $80 billion foreign debt, among the highest in the Third World. The statement raised the specter of a possible default that would have a domino effect on the international banking system. No one was more concerned than U.S. bankers, who hold about 60% of Mexico's debt...
...music I play is music the Mardi Gras Indians do. The guys that did this thing-Professor Longhair, Smiley Lewis, Guitar Slim-died off. There was nobody to keep it alive except the few guys who worked with them. Me, James Booker, Huey Piano Smith, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint. I guess I would call my own style barrelhouse with blues and jazz mixtures. Rock 'n' roll...
...they have since World War Two, the two superpowers led the way since last June in the oppressive intervention department. Washington continued its frantic efforts to prop up an illusory domino in El Salvador, ignoring past lessons that war torn nations need peace and non-interference, not American guns. Moscow still has 100,000 heavily armed campers bunking down in Kabul...