Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...restlessness in the traditionally volatile country. Unless Ardito Barletta can somehow subdue it, that sour mood could undermine his new presidency. Said General Manuel Antonio Noriega, the power ful head of Panama's 14,000-member National Defense Forces: "I see very big and dark clouds on the horizon...
Another cloud on the horizon is the economy. Industrial output is stagnant. Unemployment hovers around 14% nationwide and runs as high as 40% in some places. Foreign debt has risen to $3.4 billion, and export revenues (primarily from bananas, shrimp and light manufacturing) are falling. Panama is not benefiting much from the country's famous waterway, which was transferred to joint U.S.Panamanian administration under the 1977 Panama Canal treaties. The Big Ditch, historically a not-for-profit concern, last year showed an operating loss of $4 million, reflecting a worldwide shipping slump. One of Ardito Barletta's first...
...contrast, Carper relishes his non-U public-school background. A Viet Nam veteran, he served three terms as state treasurer before unseating Republican Congressman Tom Evans in 1982. He tools across the state in his beat-up Plymouth Horizon, listening to classical music, and boasts that he has now shaken every hand in Delaware. Carper professes not to mind that Du Pont plans to spend $300,000 more than he, insisting, "I'm used to being outspent. I overcome it by an intense, person-to-person grass-roots campaign." Carper, who supported Gold water in 1964, is a fiscal...
...form of increased Government benefits or services. Indeed, there would be new limits on federal spending to assist farmers and the elderly sick. And all this for the sake of averting a disaster-runaway deficits-that to many citizens seems no more than a vague cloud on a far horizon...
...exhaustion; the following dawn, as the weary procession reached the border, two pregnant women and a teen-age girl lay down and died. Nonetheless, the group was relatively fortunate: only a few hours after the villagers arrived safely in Pakistan, the first blizzard of the winter obscured the horizon. Dozens of people from neighboring villages who had left just one day later died in the driving snow...