Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite McMillan's lawsuit, members of the Harvard Square community said they have given measured support to Banker's plans...
...damage figure will top $2 billion and could be twice that. Roaring from St. John to Puerto Rico, the hurricane stripped the voluptuous hills of every trace of green; it sent rooftops cartwheeling down the mountainsides and busted power lines and telephone poles, leaving the hillsides silent and dark. Given all this havoc, returning visitors these days will be amazed to see how quickly, riotously, the vegetation is growing back and how mightily residents have worked to clean up the mess...
...with simple words. But the proof is very sophisticated and often difficult to grasp." Rifkin acknowledges that he occasionally uses scare tactics. But he claims that the scientific establishment is equally guilty, both of excessive rhetoric and of usurping policy decisions that need more debate than they are being given...
...Encourage cooperatives. Public resentment over the price-gouging practices of some cooperatives has given conservative bureaucrats an excuse to tax them heavily. But since the excesses of some cooperatives stem primarily from a lack of competition, the co-op system should be expanded, not constrained...
...actually shrinking. What can the West do to help? Industrial nations can offer advice and much needed economic expertise, but massive financial aid would be ill advised and probably not what the Soviets want in any case. Abalkin has already mentioned that the Soviets would like to be given the trading status of most favored nation, along with more freedom to import high-technology goods. But by and large, Soviet economists understand that they have to solve their own problems. Said Abalkin: "We have an old Russian saying, 'Drowning men must save themselves...