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...latitude to try to boost their 2.75% growth rate. Herbert Giersch, director of the Institute of World Economics at the University of Kiel, suggested that Bonn should bring forward tax cuts now planned for January 1988. Such stimulus is needed, he said, because a rising mark could play havoc with West Germany's export industries. Giersch predicted that the country would be lucky to achieve a 2.5% growth rate...
This is important to the crisis swirling around Doc Bowen, the first physician to command the Department of Health and Human Services, for he is now prescribing Government action against the havoc caused by catastrophic illness. Specifically, Bowen has proposed that by charging Medicare beneficiaries an extra $4.92 each month, the Medicare program could pay all hospital and doctor bills above...
Sullivan and McMillan, two of the league's best players, drove Quincy's passing attack all the way to the 1985 Championship game. But now, the golden two will be airing out the ball for their own team and wreaking havoc on defensive backfields around the league...
...government goes changing the speed limit every decade, they'll start thinking they can change it whenever they want. You'll go to bed and the speed limit will be 120; you'll wake up and Route 66 will be designated a school zone. It'll wreak havoc...
...world oil prices, for example, reached a new low of $8 on spot markets last week. Cheap oil is putting more money into the pockets of consumers and most businesses, and it will ultimately stimulate sales and investment. But in the short run, the oil-price drop has wreaked havoc among U.S. energy producers, which have cut back on exploration and production, thereby dragging down U.S. output and employment...