Word: mar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Corinne Larrimore Del Mar, Calif...
...exploiting the deficit issue, Wall Street was trading and taking profits with pent-up gusto: 754.5 million shares were sold last week, a record. Both the Administration and the Congressional Budget Office issued somewhat cheerier economic estimates for 1984 and beyond. But the federal budget shortfalls continue to mar the Reagan record: the nonpartisan CBO predicted that without further budget cuts or tax increases, the deficits will continue to grow, almost doubling the cumulative federal debt (now $1.3 trillion) over the next five years...
...holds out an empty tin can. A block away, at the corner of Avenida Madero, a white-stubbled man with no legs holds up a few packs of Chiclets for sale. Just beyond him in the dusk sits one of those silent Indians who are known as "Marías," this one a grimy-faced girl of perhaps 15, in a ragged shawl and pigtails, with her baby wheezing in its sleep on the sidewalk beside her. She holds out a thin brown palm, but nobody stops...
...mend. After operating losses totaling some $1.2 billion since 1981, scheduled U.S. carriers could earn more than $1 billion this year. That turnaround reflects shrunken payrolls and the dramatically improved economy. Nonetheless, some airlines, like Republic and Western, have continued to struggle. Says former Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman Mar vin Cohen: "It's possible there will be a further shake-out in the industry...
Brown Del Mar, Calif...