Word: drives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inefficient state-owned monopolies, which are losing $4 billion annually. Menem may get the power to do so if the Argentine Congress approves a new emergency law that would give him almost unlimited control over the nationalized companies. But Menem has so far offered no details about his privatization drive. Those particulars are not likely to come soon. On Friday, only six days after joining Menem's Cabinet, Economic Minister Miguel Roig died of a heart attack. His replacement, businessman Nestor Rapanelli, will be the fourth Economic Minister since March 31, when Juan Sourrouille resigned because of his inability...
...C.B.O.T. issued an emergency order, its first in a decade, that July futures contracts in excess of 1 million bu. be liquidated. In one day soybean-futures prices plunged 5%, to $6.86 per bu. Traders speculated that a single buyer was trying to corner the market or drive up prices. The suspected culprit: Ferruzzi Finanziaria, Italy's second largest privately held company and the third largest U.S. soybean processor since it bought Indiana-based Central Soya...
...plan to introduce in the state legislature when it reconvenes in September. Early betting is that the bills will pass, but not by margins wide enough to override vetoes. So the battle eventually will be decided at the ballot box. Pro-lifers are already talking about starting a petition drive to force another referendum on any vetoed restrictions. The issue has split both parties: the staunchly liberal United Auto Workers has taken no position because of bitter dissension within its ranks, while pro- choice sentiment is strong in affluent, suburban and heavily Republican Oakland County, just north of Detroit...
...approximately 4000 people who watchedBush's 12-car motor-cade drive through the streetsof Warsaw waved small paper American flagslistlessly. Occasionally there were shouts of"Long life. Long life...
...evidently cultures where it is considered basically good etiquette to keep your left-turn signal on at all times. Then there are people who feel it's important to buy the largest possible car, the kind you can land aircraft on top of with no problem, and they drive them incredibly slowly. At the same time, there are people who cannot imagine going less than 70 m.p.h., including in their driveways. Then the politics here is amazing. I mean, we have rallies here for the right to sacrifice chickens...