Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Investors are now demanding a higher return on fixed-income investments. From mid-March to the end of April, the yield on 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds jumped from 7.5% to 8.5%, a remarkably swift rise. By the end of last week, yields had surged to 8.9%, the highest level in 15 months. The Federal Reserve Board allowed rates to climb in order to prop up the dollar. Higher interest rates bolster the U.S. currency by making dollar-denominated investments more attractive to foreign investors...
...Yeah, but they've got the state of the art anti-missile defense system, the Phalanx. Completely automatic. Safe as can be. And frankly, well, these Exocets make a lot of noise, but they don't always go off." He brought the plane down to wavetop level and, with an impressive wooshing of flames and superheated gas, let the missile...
...With the current level of international travel, our students are exposed to many different environments," says Joyce C. Kennedy, practicing nurse for Phillips Exeter. Kennedy adds "there's no way measles can be contained anymore...
...Evidence has shown that there is a waning level of immunity to measles among college students due to decreasing antibody levels," Turco says...
...more determined efforts to build durable forms of cooperation for particular problems, however, where there are strong mutual interests in doing so. Such structures have served us well in the past. In the field armaments, the nonproliferation treaty has held the rate of nuclear diffusion to one-third the level that President Kennedy predicted in 1961. In commerce, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade has helped to slow the growth of protectionism. In banking, cooperation has worked to contain the threat of massive defaults and to manage the vast shifts of wealth brought on by the OPEC cartel...