Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other scholars contend that the low saving rate is mainly a problem of definition. Much of today's saving, they say, has become institutionalized through corporate pensions and profit-sharing accounts. But the money that companies contribute to these plans on behalf of their employees is not counted by the Government as personal savings. Moreover, some economists point out, consumers are big savers in comparison with the free-spending Federal Government. Declares M.I.T. Economist Franco Modigliani, who won the Nobel Prize for his research on the behavior of savers: "It is the Government that is gobbling up our savings with...
...Brokaw it was the biggest week of his career. Along with Peter Jennings, his rival anchor over at ABC, and Public Television's MacNeil-Lehrer, Brokaw epitomizes a welcome trend in television newscasting -- urbane, intelligent and low-keyed...
...save. The typical family has about $61,000 put away, which amounts to 1.7 times the average annual salary. The most popular places for Japanese savings are the more than 23,000 branches of the government's Postal Savings Bureau, even though interest on its accounts runs as low as 1.7%. The bureau's $871 billion in deposits makes it the largest savings institution in the world...
...commission singled out four critical areas for immediate investigation: the lack of low-cost hospices or home-based care for AIDS patients, the scarcity of drugs to fight the disease, the shortage of treatment programs for intravenous drug users, and the lack of hard figures on the extent of the epidemic...
...mini-negotiation -- the so-called walk in the woods -- that resulted in a tentative deal that would have sacrificed the Pershing II but allowed the U.S. a stripped-down deployment of cruise missiles to counter a residual force of SS-20s. Cruise missiles fly subsonically at low altitudes and are vulnerable to enemy air defenses. The Pershing II ballistic missiles arc to the edge of space and can strike targets inside western Russia in a matter of minutes. The deal was repudiated by both men's home offices. It was shot down in Washington (particularly by Perle) because it meant...