Word: means
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...switch between Democrats and Republicans does not bring real structural change for the U.S. But, in Latin America, the outcome of the U.S. election can mean civil war, military dictatorship or economic ruin...
Patriotism, according to the Republican rhetoric, consists of a smug satisfaction in our supposed greatness, not in improving the political and economic lives of the voiceless. A Republican Administration has meant and can mean different things for different groups: for an oil company, a tax break; for a university student, taxes on scholarships and cancellation of loans; for a Salvadoran illegal alien, unemployment and deportation; for a Chilean singer, loss of guitar, hands and life...
...quite a noise. In these anabolic times, a Washington reporter with only the evidence of his eyes has been able to incite chants of "ster-oids, ster- oids" in the bleacher sections around Canseco. But Jose has the grace to grin and make a muscle. "The fans don't mean any harm," he shucks...
...does not, experts like Robert Chandross, chief economist at Lloyds Bank in Manhattan, warn that prices could drop below $10 per bbl. and remain at that level for the next six months. That would mean a repeat by next spring of the oil-market collapse of early 1986, when OPEC overproduction sent prices crashing to less than $10 per bbl. While cheap energy helps most Western economies by lowering inflation, petroleum at prices below $10 or $12 per bbl. is a painful prospect for such indebted oil producers as Algeria and Mexico and the weakened U.S. energy belt...
Conspicuously absent from the Central Committee meeting was Yegor Ligachev, the Gorbachev rival who only two weeks ago was named head of a new commission on agriculture. A government spokesman said Ligachev was "on vacation," but that "doesn't mean we shouldn't address the question of agriculture...