Word: occurence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue new stock or for young firms hoping to go public, the impact of the Black Monday crash was immediate and devastating. Many were forced to put their plans on hold until stock prices rise substantially, and they faced the unsettling possibility that a renewed bull market might not occur anytime soon...
...Wall Street shock was starting to register. According to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll of 2,394 Americans last week, nearly two out of three (64%) say a major economic downturn is very or somewhat likely in the next twelve months. "Since about 19% of total retail sales occur during November and December, the plunge could not have come at a more inopportune time," says Robert Chandross, chief economist of Lloyds Bank in Manhattan...
...years," says Charles Schultze, who headed the Council of Economic Advisers under Jimmy Carter. Feldstein figures that the dollar would have to drop 30% in five years to reach a sustainable value and adds that if natural market forces were left to work unhindered, most of that decline would occur in the next twelve months...
...letter, Smart explained that the federal government was concerned that in an effort to penetrate the U.S, supercomputer market, Japanese companies might try to sell the computer below production cost. If that were to occur, American companies, who would not sell at below cost, would not be able to furnish a supercomputer at a competitive price...
...years after his 1981 visit to South Africa, Huntington concluded that the government had not followed his prescriptions after all. (8) Rather than moving swiftly to impose piecemeal, limited reforms, he found, the South African government has moved slowly, raising expectations it did not meet and allowing debate to occur along with revolutionary violence. The government appeared to respond to pressure, thus appearing vulnerable. It failed to maintain the security Huntington viewed as so crucial to implementing limited reform; and it alienated large sections of the business community from its reform coalition. As a result, Huntington says, the situation...