Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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At the least, the sales cutback will now make it more difficult-if not impossible -for the Administration to meet its already doubtful goal of chopping as much as $8 billion off the U.S.'s record 1978 trade deficit of $28.5 billion in the year ahead. A continuing deficit...
Now imperiled are deals for the future delivery of almost $15 billion worth of West German nuclear reactors, six submarines costing $545 million, and several smaller projects. In Britain, Chrysler U.K. Ltd. last week laid off 1,500 workers at its Coventry and Birmingham plants because of chaos in Iran...
But failure to find some sort of compromise could also trigger a global banking panic, and that is something that would hurt Iran's creditors as much as Iran itself. Reports that Abol-Hassan Banisadr - said to be a leading candidate for Finance Minister in the regime that Ayatullah...
The dining rooms of the Min Zu (Nationalities) and Peking hotels are jammed these nights with foreign businessmen dawdling over dinner because there is little else to do in the Chinese capital after dark. But an American hoping to compare notes with a Western colleague on the art of negotiating...
But act how? Delgado offered five proposals: 1) laws forcing proselytizers always to identify their organizations; 2) a required "cooling-off period" before deciding whether to convert; 3) spiritual "living wills" to forestall future conversion; 4) licensing of high-pressure recruiters; and 5) as a last resort, court-ordered psychiatry...