Word: looping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week showed, the issue will not die. Nor should it. Despite his insistence that he was "out of the loop," there is hard evidence that Bush, a former CIA director who ran the Administration's antiterrorism task force, had access to enough information about the tawdry arms-for-hostages deal that his professed failure to understand what was happening is as damaging as the notion that he knew more than he admits...
...that eventually housed their heavy-equipment concern, the Japanese pronounced it "very dull and scary, very gloomy," recalls John Gregory, a Tennessee official who escorted the group. When the Komatsu executives suddenly announced that they were buying the abandoned plant, says Gregory, "it kind of threw us for a loop...
Japanese businessmen are throwing the U.S. for a loop in a number of ways. Japan, the world's largest creditor country, where consumers save 17% of their earnings (vs. 4% in the U.S.), has the mightiest bankroll of all to engage in buying America. Bereft of enough investment opportunities at home to absorb their astonishing pile of savings, the Japanese are hungrily looking abroad for places to park the excess cash. Japan's direct investments in U.S. real estate and corporations reached $23.4 billion at the end of 1986, a jump of about 18% from the previous year. Predicts Amir...
...bull market itself. The effect of stock prices on the broader economy is a subject of considerable dispute: the market has collapsed during business booms and skyrocketed during recessions. But some economists believe in what Allen Sinai, chief economist of Shearson Lehman Bros., calls a "positive feedback loop": a rising economy spurs stock prices, which in turn help to prompt further business growth...
...McFarlane and his successor as National Security Adviser, John Poindexter. "Covert actions were pretty much left to Casey and ((CIA Deputy Director)) John McMahon, with little if any top-level discussion or review," says one former Administration policymaker. According to this official, even Reagan was cut out of the loop: "The President became less and less involved. Decision making was less systematically fashioned. There was no process to involve him. There was too much informality...