Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nicaraguan contras--the President has been talking almost as tough as he does on taxes. He left no doubt that his approach is deliberate. Addressing the Magazine Publishers Association the morning after his "make my day" speech, Reagan noted, "Some stories recently (have suggested that) remarks of mine on taxes and defense and freedom in our hemisphere have been--well, shall we say, plain and direct." The stories, the President happily confirmed, were entirely correct: "We have an obligation now to be as candid as we were last fall when these issues were very clearly debated and, I think, emphatically...
...Reynolds, the second-largest U.S. cigarette maker, is another frustrat- ed American manufacturer. Japanese policies leave just a minuscule 2% of the country's $11.5 billion tobacco market to foreigners. Says Peter Hoult, Reynolds' vice president of marketing: "Some of the government controls are like a land mine. You never know where they'll show up." Not only do the Japanese slap taxes on imported cigarettes to boost some of their prices 40% above Japanese brands, but they have also laid down a phalanx of other barriers. It was not until 1981, for example, that Japan increased the number...
Brown, who played mine years in the National Football League with the Cleveland Browns, said he welcomed the announcement and was eager to bring the case to court...
...never realized how ignorant some people are to the problems of minorities until a recent experience with a friend of mine. My friend is an "average", 'white Harvard student. Another friend of ours, a Black, invited us to a dance at one of the houses that was being sponsored by one of the Black organizations on campus. My friend asked if he would be the only white person there. My friend is not prejudiced against minorites, he just thought he would feel uncomfortable if he was different from everybody else. He didn't want the others to stare...
TIME's economists viewed last week's dip in the dollar as a healthy development, but said that a sharp plunge could be dangerous. Admitted Greenspan: "The dollar has long been a great worry of mine." If foreigners lost confidence in the dollar, they might start pulling large sums of money out of American investments. That could lead to a run-up in U.S. interest rates and slower growth than the economists now predict...