Word: importantally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most important for Bush, runaway interest rates would cast a pall on the Administration's sunny outlook for economic growth, which is central to its plans to cut the budget deficit. The White House expects the economy to expand by a robust 3.3% in 1989, vs. the 2.7% growth rate...
As persuasive as the arguments in favor of a change may be, to some they represent a diversion from more important matters. "This undue concern with our name is a reflection of our powerlessness," says Cornell University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., a leading literary theorist. "I don't really...
What fresh ideas was the new thinking Soviet Foreign Minister promoting? Not many. Shevardnadze's peace proposal was largely procedural, reiterating an idea that has been floating around the region for several years and is widely endorsed by most of the relevant parties, except Israel. But as a public relations...
More important, the Soviet initiative reinforced an emerging consensus in the Middle East that the conflict can no longer be ignored. "The postponements have ended," said a Cairo-based diplomat. "Now, either there will be progress toward peace or there will be a moment of truth that the gaps between...
Allen's method is different. In Oedipus Wrecks, his efficiency is that of the perfectly practiced anecdotalist, not wasting a moment on irrelevant detail, yet knowing when to linger over the important ones. In this brisk vignette, Allen himself plays Sheldon, victim of a kind of transcendental Jewish-mother joke...