Word: growth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fare, while food snobs ridiculed creations like Big Mac's "special sauce" as gooey and gross. Even investors, who had been smitten with McDonald's stock for two decades, were predicting that a glut of golden arches would soon put an end to the chain's glory days of growth...
...shaking the salt from its food, installing sleek outlets in U.S. airports and hospitals, taking its burgers to such far-flung locales as Yugoslavia and Guam and serving as a leading U.S. employer of minorities and the elderly. Thanks to its current vitality, McDonald's is maintaining its growth while such rivals as Burger King and Wendy's appear to be slowing down...
...resolution today adopts a very solid budget which many economists believe can make a difference between continued economic growth in the United States and economic stagnation," said Speaker Jim Wright (D-Tx.) "This budget reduces the deficit in a balanced way," he said...
...Echoing a conservative rallying cry, Zhao began his speech by demanding boosts in grain production. Lashing out at consumers who are "given to pleasure seeking," he called for more unglamorous projects, such as the construction of roads, bridges and energy facilities. Zhao railed against "blindly seeking an excessively high growth rate" lest China's inflation, which is now running at a roughly 6% annual clip, get completely out of hand. His remarks seemed aimed at the policies of the once influential Hu, who last week was re-elected / to the 157-member presidium that heads the People's Congress. Seated...
...sanctions come during a time of relative economic hardship for Japan and political difficulties for its Prime Minister, Yasuhiro Nakasone. Under heavy pressure from the U.S., Japan has allowed its yen to appreciate 43% against the dollar during the past two years, which has pinched the country's economic growth and pushed unemployment to 3% for the first time in decades. The new sanctions would go into effect only two weeks before a planned visit to Washington by Nakasone, who was hoping for a show of friendliness with Reagan that might boost his support at home...