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Word: expansionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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For months, portents have flashed across the financial heavens, feeding expectations of renewed vigor for the sluggish world economy. The price of oil has been in free fall, lifting a multibillion-dollar burden from industrialized and Third World countries. International interest rates have been dropping steadily, clearing away yet another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahead: Growth and Danger | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

Specifically, TIME's economists estimated that growth in the U.S. GNP will rise from a trough of 2% in the second quarter to 2.5% in the second half of this year. In 1987, however, they expect the rate of expansion to dip again to ( 2%. Western Europe is likely to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahead: Growth and Danger | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

Until then, Washington's position was that the debt burden--some $415 billion owed by 56 African, Latin American and Caribbean countries alone--could be reduced through the adoption of tough austerity measures by the debtors under the supervision of the International Monetary Fund. At Seoul the so-called Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easing into an Era | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

Sentiment scotches the wit in "About Last Night," an expansion and dilution of David Mamet's 1974 one-acter Sexual Perversity in Chicago. Written as a series of blackout scenes involving two working-class pals and the two young women they fancy, the play was rancid, funny and dead-on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Everything New Is Old Again | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

At a time when several struggling retail chains, including Gimbels and Ohrbach's, are closing their doors, St. Louis-based May Department Stores seems to be thinking only of expansion. Last week May, which operates 2,206 outlets, proposed a friendly merger with Associated Dry Goods, a New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Marked Down to $2.4 Billion | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

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