Word: furthers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though both Lahey and Pack have since died, Goldsmith believes that there is some corroborating visual evidence in photographs of F.D.R. taken over the years. By about 1932, he says, a small pigmented lesion had appeared above Roosevelt's left eye. In following years it seems to have enlarged...
Though nobody likes rationing or higher taxes, the economy is destined to suffer even worse reverses if Congress fails to act. OPEC's prices are all but certain to keep climbing in 1980, draining wealth out of the U.S. economy and into the bank accounts of foreign oil exporters...
A further big rise in price would do shocking damage. For example, a jump to $30 per bbl. would lift OPEC's total 1980 revenues to about $300 billion, constituting a huge new international tax on economies everywhere.
While OPEC becomes richer, the rest of the world will grow poorer. For example, suppose oil hits $30 before the end of next year. Instead of a projected balance of payments surplus in 1980, the U.S. could wind up with a deficit of $15 billion, further weakening the dollar.* Overall...
Many European and U.S. bankers have been at odds since mid-November. It was then that Chase Manhattan and six other large U.S. banks in an eleven-member syndicate used their voting majority to declare a $500 million loan to Iran in default. That raised fears of still further defaults...