Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion in new loans from commercial banks and lending agencies like the World Bank. There was one important condition: the debtor nations had to modernize their economies and institute financial reforms. Baker hoped that economic growth would provide the debtors with sufficient capital to repay their loans, bringing the level of total debt down to a more reasonable level...
...Forresters are all aware of the growing polarization of income in the job market based on level of education. A few miles south of where they live, the family of Bob's sister Rindi offers an interesting counterpoint. She married Don Elster, a college graduate and a banker. They have the first child in the third generation of the Forrester family to receive a college degree. Steven Elster, 27, is finishing medical school. He is being supported by his parents, who are also paying for half his medical-school tuition. He has every expectation of rising quickly into the upper...
...trade-off for older parents, as Yale's Zigler notes, is probably "energy level vs. maturity." It may be that attentiveness and commitment to children will offset the disadvantages of age. "I am a parent, not an old parent," insists Los Angeles lawyer John Schulman, 42, father of a 2 1/2- year-old daughter. "I devote time, energy and love to my child." Says Zigler: "Good parenting is a process of bonding and attachment. This is more important than the age of the parent...
...Bentsen can run for both the vice presidency and the Senate. He spends nearly a third of each day giving local interviews and another third raising money. Bentsen will rope in $8 million for his Senate race against a virtual unknown. That money can be used for precinct-level registration and get-out-the-vote efforts, which are what win in Texas. Democrats are telling voters to pull the lever twice for Bentsen on Nov. 8. But the Republicans have a subtler strategy. Get two Texans for the price of one, they whisper. Keep Bentsen as chairman of the Senate...
...alternately cooperating and dragging its feet on the MIA issue. Viet Nam seemed to be following that cynical strategy last July when it abruptly halted plans for a joint excavation of crash sites. The move may have been provoked by Washington's refusal to agree to low-level diplomatic ties until Viet Nam completes the withdrawal of an estimated 100,000 troops from Kampuchea...