Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush arrived at the South Congregational Church for Sunday services when a reporter snapped, "Get out of my way!" Says Drew, more in wonder than anger: "No one talks like that around here." Day defended some firewood that two reporters planned to liberate to warm themselves while camped out near the Bush compound. "How do you 'borrow' firewood?" Day asks. "It's going to be like Boston soon. You'll have to put fences around everything that's worth anything...
...threats to the dollar, and by extension to the economy as a whole, are the U.S. budget and trade deficits. While the trade gap fell to an estimated $135 billion in 1988 from $170 billion the previous year, some economists fear that it will not keep narrowing at anywhere near that pace because the growth of U.S. exports will slow this year. According to this view, the dollar will have to take a real plunge if the trade gap is to be narrowed much further. This would make American-made goods less expensive for foreign consumers. Recently, the trade deficit...
...North Yemen, its bigger, more conservative and Western-oriented neighbor. Al Attas regards the merger as his country's "crucial" issue. "We are all Yemenis," he says. "We find it very important to raise the level of cooperation between our two countries." To that end, a newfound oil concession near the North Yemen border has been earmarked for joint development. The border is now open, plans for a combined power grid have been drawn, and a fresh draft of a unified constitution is almost ready for ratification. But past relations have been so rocky that skeptics doubt that the grandiose...
...grease not just for diplomatic outreach but for South Yemen's attempts at bootstrap development. In 1987 Soviet geologists discovered a little of the black gold beneath the desert sands near Shabwa. When the first wells begin gushing in 1990, the area may produce up to 70,000 barrels a day. That small but steady output will bring $240 million a year into South Yemen's treasury...
...civilians lost 93,424 jobs but gained 138,138 new ones when the installations were turned to other uses. Communities across the country have found imaginative ways to transform the old bases. Forty-two former Pentagon airfields have become local airports. When the government closed Kincheloe Air Force Base near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., eleven years ago, 700 civilian jobs vanished and the surrounding community in the Upper Peninsula lost 33% of its population. Today an industrial park at the old base site provides work to four times as many civilians as Kincheloe employed. Success stories like these give credence...