Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economists forecast that the U.S. gross national product, after adjustment for inflation, will grow a poky 2.3% in 1989, down from an estimated 2.8% last year. The economy will slow as the Fed's tightening grip on the money supply pushes up interest rates. At a growth rate of about 2% or less, most economists think the U.S. can expand without getting out of balance. "This is a slowdown the Fed can be happy with," says David Wyss, chief financial economist for Data Resources...
...Gorbachev has received generally high marks from Soviets for his handling of the disaster. He is being praised in Moscow for his fast reaction in cutting short his American trip and returning to the Soviet Union, and in keeping what appears to be a tight grip on events as they unfold. "He sent a high-level team to the region immediately and kept them there," says a senior Western diplomat in Moscow. "They showed compassion and worked with the local people. The real test will be in how well they organize the long-term reconstruction." The disaster catapulted Prime Minister...
...military strategists agreed on two major points: 1) Gorbachev's reductions will bring the NATO and Warsaw Pact deployments in the collision-point region closer to, but still far from, a stable balance, and 2) the Soviet retrenchment will not diminish the Kremlin's ability to retain its military grip on its East bloc neighbors...
...coming.' All eyes turned ahead. A blue- green corpuscle was bumping along ahead of them." Some follow the adventures of Sherlock Holmes in outer space; some track the steps of Albert Einstein in his Princeton office: "He could not believe that the universe would be so entirely in the grip of chance. 'God may be subtle,' he once said. 'But he is not malicious...
...season-ending game against St. Lawrence. The Crimson jumped to a 6-2 lead. But Harvard watched that lead dwindle in the final two minutes of the game. By the time the game was over, the Crimson was hanging on to a 6-5 victory. Its gutsy grip on victory was inspiring. But the game was a portent of the rest of the season--the Crimson fizzled in the ECAC playoffs...