Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about two-thirds of the economy. If retail sales slow down much more sharply than expected, that would overwhelm the benefits of increased exports and capital outlays. For that reason, the economists admitted that there is a significant chance of a recession in 1988 -- perhaps 20%. Some experts doubt the economy could withstand another body blow from Wall Street. Says Economist Gerald Holtham of Credit Suisse First Boston in London: "The only thing that could push the U.S. into a recession is another panic sell-off on the stock market that hits consumer confidence...
...talking about the need to spend more money on the public school system. He was referring to how "the President himself must become the nation's first teacher to help our people understand some very tough problems and how together we can solve them." Such are noble sentiments, no doubt. Before Gary Hart can teach us anything, though, he needs to learn a few lessons himself...
...outcome is never really in doubt, so streamlined and predictable are the characters. The women in Bud's life are there primarily as temptations. His broker and lawyer pals are either consciences or bad company. The film seems intended as a blend of morality play and classical satire -- Everyman meets Volpone. Stone always comes at you with big dreams and nightmares; he wants the first and last word on every subject he touches, whether Central America (Salvador), Viet Nam (Platoon) or Wall Street. This time he works up a salty sweat to end up nowhere, like a triathlete...
...addition to the tax code, demographic changes have no doubt contributed to the savings drought. The baby-boom generation -- the 76 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 -- is in its peak spending years right now. According to the so-called life-cycle theory of savings behavior, people tend to do their heaviest borrowing and spending from their mid-20s to mid-40s. Then, after their children are grown, they start saving for retirement. Many economists predict that when a huge number of baby boomers reach middle age in the 1990s, the level of U.S. saving will improve...
...provincial town. Varlam combines Stalin's close-cropped haircut, Hitler's mustache and Mussolini's black shirt to embody the image of a universal tyrant. Although the setting and time are undefined -- secret police appear alternately as medieval knights or spear-wielding Roman centurions -- there is no doubt that the real subject is Stalinism...