Word: junes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crystal-clear morning in June, George Bush stood before the Grand Tetons in Wyoming and proclaimed, "Every American deserves to breathe clean air." Last week, after environmentalists and their allies on Capitol Hill got a look at the President's 279-page plan for implementing his promise to clean up America's spacious but smoggy skies, they claimed he had double-crossed them. Bush, they said, had retreated substantially from his Rocky Mountain rhetoric and in some areas even fell short of current...
Just 36 hours after Menem's address, his administration announced the first steps of "unusually severe, exceptional and emergency" measures designed to break the nation's hyperinflation (114% for June alone) and to restore confidence in its virtually insolvent government. Among them: a 90-day wage- and-price freeze, a 116% devaluation of the austral to 650 vs. the U.S. dollar and an aggressive privatization of most state-run companies. Because the end of many government subsidies will bring unavoidable price increases for some goods and services, all workers will be given a bonus of 8,000 australes...
...Coast Guard's commandant, Admiral Paul Yost Jr., has done little to clarify the pilotage issue. In June he declared in a speech at a federal maritime academy that Cousins was "fully qualified" to pilot the vessel. But in an interview with TIME, Yost hedged his statement by saying Cousins "was competent, but he was not technically qualified...
...strongly worded message to the Group of Seven echoed earlier Chinese reaction to sanctions individually imposed by some of the seven, including the United States and France, after the Chinese army crushed the protests June...
...reeling dollar reflected fears of recession. The Federal Reserve Board appears ready to spur the economy by letting interest rates fall, but that could further undermine the dollar by making U.S. investments less attractive to foreigners. Unemployment reached 5.3% in June, up from 5.2% in May, another sign of a slowdown...