Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just went over and congratulated them and wished them luck," Cleary said. "I told them we were all behind them. They've got a great team. Anything can happen [in the Olympics...
...assess the damage to customer confidence. Said Gerald Schultz, president of Bell & Howell, a Skokie, Ill., publisher and information-services company: "We're trying to sensitize our people to get their feelers out, with their customers, with their suppliers and their staff, to see what's going to happen...
...civilian leadership seems to have concluded that the rebels are finished as a fighting force. Even the Reagan Administration has reportedly begun preparing contingency plans to withdraw the contras from combat should the peace plan prevail. Still, as many as 10,000 rebels fight on. "What's going to happen to those kids out in the jungle?" laments a U.S. State Department official. But others at State are asking, Is the pain of getting out of a war reason enough to stay...
...composition of deficit cuts but not at all about their necessity. In this view, the U.S. has about come to the end of its ability to cover giant budget and trade deficits by borrowing from foreign investors. The stock-market crash served as a warning of what would happen if the foreign capital is ever withdrawn; thus the nation must reduce its dependence on overseas borrowing for the long-term health of the economy, at whatever cost in immediate pain. Says Barry Bosworth of the Brookings Institution: "Risk of a recession is unavoidable. But a failure to act is even...
Free-marketeers like Feldstein would just as soon let that happen and get it over with. Says Herbert Stein: "The dollar should be allowed to decline as far and as fast as it will." But that course runs a gigantic risk: a free- falling dollar could easily touch off a panic flight of foreign capital from the U.S. That is about the last thing anyone wants, since it could trigger a worldwide financial collapse. It would be much better to renegotiate the Louvre accord to allow a gentle, managed decline in the dollar. As part of such an agreement, foreign...