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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past the single party winning the most votes had to construct a coalition to form a majority among the parliament's 120 seats, with coalition-builders bending over backwards to appease the inflated demands of small party power brokers. One third of Israeli voters, those who chose the second largest party, were left in ineffectual opposition to the narrow coalition...
...Carbide, after a leak of the toxic chemical Aldicarb at the company's Institute, W. Va., plant left 141 people hospitalized. Last week OSHA levied a $1.4 million fine against the Danbury, Conn.-based firm for "willful disregard for health and safety" at the Institute plant. It was the largest penalty imposed by OSHA in its 16-year history...
...With the country now in the third year of a recession, Lusinchi has little political room to maneuver. He has already promised that a job-creating $5 billion public-works program will not be touched. Venezuelans are counting on their nation's $13.7 billion of foreign-exchange reserves, the largest in Latin America, to see them through the current crunch...
...region's financial institutions are increasingly vulnerable to plummeting energy prices. In Wyoming, eight banks failed in the past 2 1/2 years. At the ten largest Texas bank holding companies, energy credits make up about 11% of total loans. As a result, more and more banks are bolstering their reserves against possible future losses. Last week MCorp, the second- largest bank in Texas, announced that it was increasing its loan-loss reserve by about $215 million. First Oklahoma said that it would set aside $27 million...
...buying it for 55 cents. Says Joseph Hopkins, a spokesman for Chicago-based United Airlines, which alone saves $20 million a year for every 1 cents fuel-price reduction: "We can take quick advantage of price breaks." Donald Burr, chairman of Newark-based People Express, now the fifth largest U.S. carrier, says that his company is getting "terrific savings." In the first quarter of 1986, People cut its fuel bill by as much as $16 million, or 30%. The oil- price plunge may not result in lower air-fares, since they have already been slashed by the recent discount wars...