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...point cease-fire proposal for Nicaragua. His plan calls for a monthlong cease-fire to take effect on Dec. 5. During the cease-fire, armed contras would be confined to one of three zones spread over a 4,200-sq.-mi. area. All military shipments to the rebels would halt during that period, but supplies of clothes, food and other nonlethal aid could be delivered by neutral international agencies. Under the proposal, any contras who lay down their arms will be granted amnesty and "may join in the political life of the nation with full enjoyment of their rights...
...attempt to halt the declining number of Blacks and Hispanics entering high-level management positions, two national business groups will sponsor a conference in Boston tomorrow aimed at increasing the number of minority students earning MBA degrees...
...survey of 35 economists last week predicted that the economy will expand at a humdrum 2.8% annual rate during the last half of 1987 and a sluggish 1.4% in the first half of 1988. While that is a definite slowdown, it is not quite a dead halt. A few economists, however, predict a recession. Among them is Irwin Kellner, chief economist for Manufacturers Hanover, the New York City banking company, who thinks the U.S. economy will shrink by 2% in the first half of 1988 before quickly recovering...
...driving, and turning to the wheel a panic of road-leaving, a blurry desert scene suspension-crunching horror flash of scrub and a pedestrian, pale moon-faced shock, tears by, but I throw on the breaks and our tortured trusty boat screeches dustwise front-to-back to a halt...
Program Trading. On Black Monday, the N.Y.S.E. ordered a halt to certain kinds of computer-aided trades in which brokers send huge waves of buy or sell orders through the markets with a few taps on a keyboard. Those emergency restrictions are still in effect, and there is considerable sentiment for making them permanent. But even as program trading was emerging as everybody's favorite scapegoat, evidence was mounting that the practice had played a smaller role in the market's collapse than suspected. According to figures released last week by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, program trading accounted for less...