Word: importantally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Airlines routinely lose baggage, and one airplane in flight last year even lost some of its skin. In the sky near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport last week, a Boeing 737 lost something just as important: one of its two engines. Moments after takeoff, the jet's right engine...
Frustrated by repeated failures to forecast accurately and wearied by years of feuding, economists are moving toward a more eclectic yet pragmatic ^ philosophy. Going out the window are the overly rigid, dogmatic formulas for prosperity. Many academics are attacking their peers for getting so wrapped up in mathematical models that...
Like Boskin, economists of every stripe are grappling with the far- reaching changes that have swept the U.S. during the 1980s. Among them: the growing transformation of the world into a single, global marketplace in which the U.S. is just one player; the frightening decline of American competitiveness, which has...
"This is one of the most important decisions handed down by the court in this decade," said Federal Appeals Judge William Wilkins Jr. of South Carolina, the commission's chairman. The result, he said, will be "more uniform, fair and truthful sentences." The impact will reach far beyond the several...
"The rich get richer," Taylor said. "The fact that Harvard is 15-0 and we're 4-7, that they're first in the ECAC and we're eighth, is important to a recruit."