Word: flooded
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Seaga may have disposed of his parliamentary opposition for the time being, but he has not solved Jamaica's economic ills. He promised a surge in exports and a flood of foreign investments as a result of free-market policies like lowered trade barriers, but neither has materialized. The U.S. is partly to blame. Key trade concessions contained in the Reagan Administration's Caribbean Basin Initiative have been held up for almost two years in Congress, while the U.S. recession reduced demand for Jamaican exports like bauxite, which is used to produce aluminum. From 12 million tons...
Brokers brace for a flood of trading in the new A T & T stocks
...executive director, overseeing its dozens of staff analysts and managing the disparate flow of diplomatic and military data coming into the White House from various Government agencies. As an assistant to the President, the National Security Adviser has to produce coherent syntheses of this flood of information and opinion, and sometimes arbitrate interagency disputes, so that the Chief Executive can make informed, independent policy decisions. And of course the adviser must simply advise, telling the President what he thinks ought to be done...
...venues, both outdoor $3 million facilities, neither the swimming pool on the U.S.C. campus two miles from downtown nor the velodrome at Cal State-Dominguez Hills 17 miles away could be called opulent. Both are handsome. "It's for the athletes," says Aquatics Commissioner Jay Flood. "It isn't for the architects." This seems a perfect motto for the Games...
...Flood is one of 34 commissioners, basically troubleshooters and budget overseers, Ueberroth's invention. Most are experienced entrepreneurs with conservative views about finances. "You know what team handball is, don't you?" Ueberroth asked Tom Megonigal before appointing Megonigal commissioner of team handball. "Sure," Megonigal replied, "four guys in a room hitting a ball off a wall." Actually, seven-man teams rampage up and down an indoor court larger than a basketball floor mistreating a leather ball about the size of a cantaloupe. Having seen it now, Megonigal and Ueberroth are both convinced that team handball is going to sweep...