Word: economizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington tempers flared in May after Papandreou, a former Econom- ics Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, called the U.S. "the expansionist metropolis of imperialism." He also asserted that the Soviet Union is incapable of imperialism because of the nature of its economic system. The remarks came on top of Greece's continuing opposition to the deployment of new NATO missiles in Western Europe, as well as Papandreou's refusal to condemn Soviet behavior in Afghanistan and Poland...
...parties of the far left and far right. During the noisy Knesset debate, Begin's handling of the economy came under attack again and again. "The government is like an unmanned space ship with no objective and no map," groused Gad Yaacobi, the Labor Party's chief economic spokesman. Weizman said he voted against his own party to pre serve the Camp David accords, since many Israelis were blaming their econom ic woes on the return of the Sinai oil fields to Egyptian sovereignty. Said...