Word: furthers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The most sensational charge in J.A.M.A. is contained in a letter from researchers who claim that Premier, a cigarette-size cylinder that heats tobacco rather than burns it, can be used to smoke crack, the cocaine derivative. That one has lit a fuse at RJR. Last week research head G...
Even before the figures came out, a Japanese official warned the U.S. against weakening the dollar as a trade-gap remedy. Makoto Utsumi, a senior executive in the Finance Ministry, declared that a further fall of the dollar against the yen would not close the trade gap because Japanese firms...
Many economists have been staring through a veil of mathematics that can further distort what they see. "Economics research has become more a game of chess than a search for understanding reality," says economist David Colander of Middlebury College in Vermont. Colander and Arjo Klamer, a visiting professor at the...
Sunnily dubbed the "summer plan," the economic controls announced by the government of President Jose Sarney last week received a decidedly chilly reception. Designed to slash the country's 1,580% inflation rate and to attack the $66 billion national debt, the plan will freeze prices, abolish automatic wage hikes...
Adding further excitement to the 1989 race is the presence on the ballot of Proposition 1-2-3, a binding referendum whose chief provision would let rent-control tenants buy their units as condominiums after living there two years or more.