Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...start to bleed to death." U.S. negotiations recessed for the weekend, although talks continued in Canada. The Chrysler strike comes just as the U.S. auto industry is completing a banner year, projecting sales of 15.5 million new cars and trucks for 1985. Strong auto business helped the economy grow at a 3.3% annual rate for the three months ended Sept. 30, up from 1.1% for the first half of the year. Small-truck sales in particular are booming, and dealers are looking forward to buyer reaction to new models...
Keezer's clientele is still mostly college students, but then "a lot of them grow up, graduate, get jobs and keep shopping here. But no matter what, they always remember us," he says...
...required to adopt tough economic policies that ran the risk of setting off severe social unrest. The new U.S. approach recognizes that borrowers will remain at the brink of collapse unless they can rev up their economic growth. Said IMF Managing Director Jacques de Larosiere: "The debtor countries must grow out of debt." To do so, they will need even more cash infusions. The plan that Baker outlined calls for a three-year lending increase of $29 billion, of which $20 billion would come from commercial banks and an additional $9 billion mostly from the World Bank...
...report says that the number of homeless people continues to grow at an alarming rate, especially among families, while the number of single homeless is stabilized or decreasing. Statewide, families account for 75 percent of the total, compared to 50 percent in Cambridge and 90 percent in Somerville...
...forgot about it for a year or so because it was not supposed to grow under Reagan's new economics. It got bigger. So I went over to the Treasury one day in 1983. Asked Secretary Donald Regan, Where does one find this Debt monster? He referred me to an assistant secretary, who referred me to another assistant secretary, who was in Japan or someplace. The trail got cold...