Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Blame cannot be placed only on the western, developed nations. A significant part of the damage has been self-inflicted, resulting from government mismanagement, corruption and civil strife. In 1982, a group of Oxford economists warned Ethiopia's Lt Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam that disaster was on the horizon for his nation. The group suggested immediate food rationing and concentrated emphasis on rural development. Instead, Mengistu channeled 46 percent of his GNP into military spending, purchasing at least $2.5 billion worth of arms from the Soviet Union. What's worse, the agricultural investment in which he deigned to engage aped...
...confident that they can move his craft, the 256-ft. M.V. Day Peckinpaugh, through the canal at a stately, steady speed of 8 m.p.h., and so is the ship's engineer, a compact, muscular fellow named Dan Sauvey. So, with the sun just clearing the horizon and beginning to burn off the mist shrouding the upstate New York city of Utica, Kaldefoss signals his crew to cast off the lines holding his command to the New York State department of transportation dock and eases it slowly, stern-first, out into the basin. Then, his craft clear, Kaldefoss settles himself...
...permanent jobs lost are usually so-called men's jobs and the new openings are increasingly filled by women, there is a harsh edge to the future that women seek to shape. An irrational sex struggle over jobs, with which politics must cope, lies just beyond the horizon. In 1984 women unwittingly placed that matter on the agenda of 1988 and the years to follow...
Barring upsets from Vermont and B.C., a Harvard-UMass showdown at Amherst looms on the horizon for the November 10th quarterfinals...
...despite a pep talk from Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, who pledged "continued tax incentives" in a second Reagan term, and continued deregulation to "keep Government off the backs of business," members agreed that the business horizon is not entirely cloudless. The council's economic report warns that the budget deficit is "heading in the wrong direction," and will reach $177 billion, $10 billion more than the Reagan Administration's latest estimate. "I don't buy the esoteric economic arguments that budget deficits aren't so bad," said TRW Chairman Ruben Mettler. "The deficit absolutely must...