Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those optimistic signs, many of the major economies are showing unmistakable signs of stress and strain. The drop in oil prices in the U.S. has stunned energy-producing regions and hurt a wide range of industries, from real estate to banking. Last week alone brought several seismic shocks: the bankruptcy filing by LTV, a major steel producer; the failure of First National Bank of Oklahoma City, a large oil-patch bank; and the $640 million loss reported by BankAmerica, which is saddled with numerous bad energy loans (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). The dislocations caused by plunging oil prices have become...
...growth is expected through 1987. Says Peter Drysdale, executive director of the Australia-Japan Research Center in Canberra: "There are going to be considerable stresses on the commodity-exporting part of the Western Pacific economy over the next 18 months or so." He noted that Australia had been severely hurt by low prices for agricultural exports. But after expanding at a barely perceptible .5% this year, the Australian economy will rebound to a 3.8% clip in 1987, Drysdale forecast...
That rationale did not impress California Democrat Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. He charged that the Administration was actually opposed to the legislation, since it would hurt businesses that benefit from the tobacco industry's annual expenditures of $2 billion on advertising and promotion. Koop has now offered to appear in two weeks, if other Administration officials from the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department also come along to offer their views on the proposed bill...
Cameron knew that the success of the Scott film derived not from any single gimmick -- like the famous moment when the alien, nurtured unawares by John Hurt's character, pops bloodily out of his chest. Rather, the filmmaker, "using all the tools at his disposal," had created an atmosphere in which every shadow spooks and every sound alarms...
This tiny terror with the big raucous talent has earned his stardom, and he is savoring it. "You can't do the 'poor guy' number with Danny," says his friend, Writer-Director James L. Brooks. "Instead of getting mad at the hurt he's experienced -- which takes the fun out of success when it comes -- Danny decided instead that it's a gas things have worked out so well." It was Brooks who helped cast DeVito as Louie DePalma, the pernicious troll of the Sunshine Cab Co. on TV's Taxi (1978-83). Expectorating slurs, dancing...