Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Investor-owned corporations also have advantages in raising money. As medicine has become more capital intensive with the influx of expensive high-technology devices, hospital administrators have had to look for new sources of funding. Industry experts estimate that U.S. hospitals will spend about $163 billion on plant and equipment in the 1980s. Traditional types of revenue, such as philanthropy, tax-exempt bonds and public subsidies, are no longer enough. For-profit hospitals with good balance sheets, however, can raise money by selling stock...
...trade deficit that was almost $4 billion last year. Narongchai forecast that growth would hover at its current level of about 5.5% through 1985. Looking at the long term, he voiced concern that half of Thailand's population of 49 million is less than 20 years old. The influx of young people into the work force may aggravate unemployment, which now stands...
Because East Germans may travel to Czechoslovakia without restrictions, the Prague embassy has been used as a haven by refugees before. Faced with this week's influx, the Bonn government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl finally decided to order the embassy doors closed. As tactful West German officials were aware, the new exodus came just as the East German state was preparing to celebrate the 35th anniversary of its founding under Soviet supervision...
...currently saving the economy from a crunch is the capital flowing in from abroad. Lured by the lofty interest rates and attractive business opportunities available in the U.S., foreigners are pouring about $100 billion this year into American investments, including bank accounts, stocks, bonds and Treasury securities. Without that influx, U.S. interest rates would be even higher. Says Martin Feldstein, a Harvard professor who served for two years as Reagan's chief economic adviser: "Although no one knows when the capital from abroad is going to dry up, the U.S. should not continue to live on borrowed time...
...vote might also be taken as a reaffirmation of a lot of things we've been hearing about the transformation of die-hard conservative attitudes in the Sunbelt by urbanization and an influx of Easterners (in Oklahoma, for example, fully two-thirds of the population of 3,025,290 lives in metropolitan areas). But more than 40 percent of Oklahoma City's 403,213 residents and 60 counties--more than 85 percent of the state's land area--turned thumbs down on changing one of the oldest traditions in the 77-year-old state...