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...should have done more in the mid-1980s," said Reich, a former economic adviser to Governor Michael S. Dukakis, "but the answer now certainly is not to shoot ourselves in the collective feet...
Despite the referendum outcome, student interest in the divestment issue has declined noticeably since the mid-1980s, when repeated protests and mass rallies sometimes numbering in the thousands failed to convince the University to sell all of its South Africa-related stock...
...degree of many banks' distress depends on the condition of their regional economies. Texas banks, many of which collapsed with oil prices in the mid-1980s, are relatively healthy now. Says Bernard Weinstein, an economist for the University of North Texas: "The banking industry nationwide is in trouble, but Texas is a couple years ahead of the curve. Our economy is recovering. Our large financial institutions have all been recapitalized. Higher oil prices will provide enough stimulus to protect us from a recession...
Milacron is retreating from the $4 billion market after 13 years because its share of the business has dwindled from a commanding 75% to just 10%, and its losses from robotics have been mounting since the mid-1980s. The company will concentrate on its traditional lines of machine tools and other industrial products...
...idea was popularized by economist Milton Friedman in his 1962 conservative classic, Capitalism and Freedom. Liberal activists then gave the notion a brief vogue in the early 1970s as an experiment sponsored by the Office of Economic Opportunity. The Reagan Administration tepidly tried to revive vouchers in the mid-1980s, and George Bush gave lip service to the concept during the 1988 campaign. But the current intellectual momentum stems from the publication of Politics, Markets, and America's Schools by political scientists John Chubb and Terry Moe. This influential book bears the imprimatur of the Brookings Institution, Washington's leading...