Word: growth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...record year for car sales in the U.S., but domestic automakers had no reason to be euphoric. While Americans bought 16.3 million cars and light trucks last year, up from 15.7 million in 1985, imports accounted for most of that growth. Foreign carmakers now claim 28.2% of the U.S. market, compared with...
Chirac believes turning France more to private enterprise will be beneficial, infusing the economy with fresh dynamism. The unrest, though, is decidedly not leading to new growth. As usual, the French have a word for it. The strike situation, they say, has become so confused that it is downright bordelique, or chaotic. That, of course, very probably comes from the Italian bordello...
...fact that LACMA has made a new wing for modern and contemporary art its main sign of growth suggests that it falls in direct competition with MOCA. But LACMA's director, Earl ("Rusty") Powell III, brushes this aside. Robert Anderson, he points out, urged Arco to give $1 million to MOCA as well as $3.6 million to LACMA. And in any case, LACMA's master plan for expansion was mostly drawn up before the 1980 announcement of MOCA's founding. "The record has already proved that we haven't detracted from each other in the search for funds," says Powell...
...however, the author holds the effectiveness of espionage to be overrated. Perhaps, but Knightley cannot prove this with lively anecdotes bounced from a wilderness of mirrors. He is more convincing when demonstrating that the gathering of secrets, and the spreading of lies, is one of the world's biggest growth industries...
...appear soft on defense, which could be politically damaging. Still, many Democrats, along with a number of Republicans, remain convinced that the U.S. cannot afford as much of an arms buildup as Reagan has proposed. Says a Capitol Hill staffer: "If there were a way to provide 3% real growth for defense, you can bet that the Democrats would do it. But the cupboard is bare. There's nothing there...