Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American trade gap with the rest of the world. The Commerce Department reported last week that the U.S. foreign trade deficit widened to $11.4 billion in February, the biggest shortfall in five months. The largest single portion, $4.2 billion, represented the difference between U.S. exports to Japan and the flood of imported Japanese products. Because of such gaps, the total trade deficit is expected to reach at least $140 billion in 1985, up some 15% from the record set last year...
...prime cause of the economic slowdown was the continuing flood of imports. Because the high value of the dollar makes imports less costly, American consumers are favoring foreign products over those made at home. Figures released last week revealed that the current account, which measures trade in goods and services, showed a record deficit of $101.6 billion last year, topping the previous peak of $41.6 billion in 1983. Foreigners have helped finance the trade deficit by investing heavily in the U.S. Because the inflow of foreign money far exceeds American investments abroad, the U.S. may have become a debtor nation...
...balanced case and must include exculpatory evidence. Even so Morgenthau was astonished by the original grand jury's finding. "We thought we had a case against this guy," he says. "I guess we underestimated the currents running in his favor." Those currents, he says, are still strong: the flood of letters to his office is running 3 to 1 in Goetz's favor...
...Vietnamese always shelled the camps, driving tens of thousands of refugees into Thailand, but then retreated from the border posts relatively quickly. The guerrillas always managed to rebuild their bases during the rainy season, beginning in May. When they did, as many as 100,000 Khmer refugees would flood back over to the Kampuchean side. This year, however, Hanoi seems bent on the elimination of the resistance altogether. With the Vietnamese firmly entrenched close to the frontier, the refugees may have to remain in Thailand, a situation that puts considerable political and financial pressures on the Thais and on United...
...Wherever the action was," Flood says, "Andy would be there...