Word: halts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...budget summiteers hoped to reach agreement this week, and waiting any longer could push the financial markets into a deep funk. But for the moment investors took consolation in the temporary halt of the dollar's worrisome slide. In a calculated strategy orchestrated by Treasury Secretary James Baker in the wake of Black Monday, the Government has been allowing the dollar to decline. Baker believed not only that a lower dollar would help ease the trade deficit by making American goods more competitive but also that propping up the currency would force the U.S. to keep interest rates too high...
...some respects, the U.S. did. President Reagan gave verbal, albeit offhand, support for the dollar, helping halt the currency's plunge, which has alarmed governments from Japan to West Germany during recent weeks. Even more upbeat was the announcement that the U.S. trade deficit, the closely watched barometer of America's global competitive woes, improved by a gratifying degree during September. But at week's end the financial world was left holding its breath for what had been promised as the most reassuring development of all: a bipartisan agreement to cut the U.S. budget deficit. After three weeks of daily...
...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...