Word: hocke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paradox could hardly be more striking. Poland, a Soviet bloc country whose economy is based on Marxist-Leninist dogma, is appealing to the capitalist West for financial aid. Warsaw has asked Washington, to which it is already in hock for $ 1.2 billion in assorted credits, for another $3 billion in assistance. The Polish government clearly needs the cash: it must pay off foreign lenders and continue to finance the food imports required to keep the Poles from becoming more restive than they...
...Vivian Morgan-Mendez, an economist at Sào Paulo's Banco de Boston: "What other country looks better as a long-run proposition?" The answer, of course, is that many do. But Brazil has achieved that most enviable role of a debtor: it is so far in hock to so many banks that its creditors cannot allow it to go broke...
Some prefer to vend. Hock hats and sell souvenirs at an amusement park (and see if your tutorial helps you unload $30 stuffed animals to saturated fairgoers). Work for the Fuller Brush people. Earn commissions, seek out customers, play the stock market, start a lemonade and orange juice stand, diversify, accumulate, acquire...