Word: glut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instance, opening trade with Indonesia will hardly help the plight of residents of East Timor who face constant discrimination in Indonesian labor markets and civil society. Why should a glut of dollars in the pockets of a nation's wealthy change their attitudes about minorities, or anything else except their opinion of the U.S.? Most of the profits from trade will go to those few Indonesians already in positions of power. President Clinton has repeatedly bashed trickle-down economics in this country, but now he's decided to try it in Indonesia...
...glut of the 1980s sapped any motivation to develop alternative energy sources. Solar moved to the fringes of public consciousness in the U.S. as the Reagan Administration eliminated most of the federal funding for research, and big oil companies dropped their development programs. Result: solar accounts for less than 0.5% of the power generated in the U.S. today, instead of the 2% to 5% envisioned in the late 1970s...
...Playland names Otto Preminger, Natalie Wood, Billy Wilder and a cast of thousands. This explains part of the problem. What is supposed to be a novel is really the author's Hollywood valedictory, and he has included every good show-biz anecdote he ever heard. Unfortunately, the glut of marvelous gossip has stopped his story cold...
Daniels concluded his speech by hailing "ourability to sift through" the glut of informationas "absolutely vital...
...been paying them in dollars, and they've been investing our dollars in new plants and machinery to make their country more productive so they can sell us more goods and make even more dollars. At this point, Japan and much of the rest of the world have a glut of dollars, more than they know what to do with. And whenever there's an oversupply of something, its price goes down. Hence the falling dollar...