Word: growth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other nations are growing tighter--mounting trade, larger capital flows, greater travel, and much more rapid communication. These developments make us more and more sensitive to events in other parts of the world. Today, recessions in Asia can cause hundreds of thousands of Americans to lose their jobs. Population growth in Mexico seeps across our borders to alter the economic and political life of cities and states from New York to California. Decisions by oil ministers in distant continents can affect our standard of living and endanger our economic prosperity. An epidemic of AIDS in Africa or a hole...
...only one international problem--defense policy and the threat of war--ranked among the ten issues that Americans considered most important. In 1986, the foreign policy goal most important to the public was protecting the jobs of American workers, while strengthening international organizations, promoting human rights, and encouraging the growth of democracy abroad lagged far behind. Three-quarters of the public agreed that "we should no longer think so much in international terms but concentrate more on our own national problems." Even the left no longer offered a positive agenda for working with other nations but simply did what...
...Mart's growth is phenomenal. The company has been able to expand for the past decade at a dizzying annual pace exceeding 35%, more than triple the rate of the retail industry as a whole. Last year Wal-Mart posted profits of $450.1 million on sales of $11.9 billion, up from only $2.4 billion five years earlier. The company, which ranks as the fourth largest U.S. retailer, is poised to supplant the No. 3 chain, J.C. Penney (1986 sales: $14.7 billion), and is moving up fast on the industry behemoths, K mart ($23.8 billion) and Sears ($44.3 billion). This week...
...Mart's frenetic growth has made the company a star on Wall Street, where its stock has skyrocketed almost nonstop since it went public in 1970. An original investment in 100 shares, which sold for about $1,650 back then, would be worth more than $700,000 today...
...think that this forum is very important, for there is a large group of people that the CCA looks out for," Duehay said. He added, "The CCA is the only organization in the city committed to progressive growth...