Word: juggernauts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party organizers will hold 70% of the power against only 30% for the M.P.s. Party Leader Michael Foot tried to head off disaster with a compromise proposal-50% control by the M.P.s and 50% split between the unions and grass roots-but he was overwhelmed by the left-wing juggernaut...
WEST GERMANY. This mighty economic juggernaut has begun to sputter badly. In 1980, West Germany's current account deficit, which includes trade of both goods and services, reached a record $15.4 billion; inflation was 5.2%, an unacceptable level by West German standards. The Bonn government is therefore slowing the growth of spending and curbing the money supply. Herbert Giersch, director of the University of Kiel's Institute for World Economics, expects no growth in his country this year, following a 1% decline in 1980. Though inflation should fall to 3.5% by the end of 1981, unemployment will rise...
National development is not supposed to be a juggernaut demanding the sacrifice of freedom of speech and justice. What developing countries cannot afford is not the luxury of a critical press, but the white elephant of an inept or corrupt government. Only a critical press can keep the government on its toes or put misguided national development back on the right track...
With the backfield of Joe Scipione, Jim Rosenfeld, and Steve Nicholas taking turns splitting the K-House defensive line, the Quincy juggernaut found itself with first and ten at the Kirkland...
Quincy House, whose juggernaut ground to a halt when it met SoHo for last year's championship, has most of its starters returning, as does Kirkland, which won last year's Straus Cup but lost the only title that really matters...