Word: outlook
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...hardest is West Germany, whose GNP actually declined at a .5% annual rate in the first quarter of the year. Nonetheless, Herbert Giersch, an economist at the University of Kiel, predicted that more stimulative government policies would push the growth rate to 2% for 1987 as a whole. The outlook may be bleaker for France, which is heavily dependent on such exports as aircraft and telecommunications equipment. Said Economics Professor Jean-Marie Chevalier, of the University of Paris Nord, who predicted a 1.3% growth rate this year for his country: "There is now a mood of melancholy, anxiety and uncertainty...
...This new outlook, Gorbachev argues, is required in an atomic age. "Nuclear deterrence demands the development of new approaches, methods and forms of relations between different social systems, states and regions," he told the Communist Party Congress last year. "It is vital that all should feel equally secure." Says Professor Robert Legvold, director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University: "This is a historic juncture. Gorbachev is the first Soviet leader to link national security to mutual security, to argue that the U.S.S.R. cannot achieve security at the expense of its main rival...
...latest target in the drive against Western ideas, Liu has become the subject of a write-in series in the conservative Peking Daily. Qu Xiao, an educator recently acclaimed as a "model" Communist, submitted his interpretation last week: "Liu's outlook was based on self-centeredness, self-design, self-struggle and self-importance. All these lead to self- destruction...
...tradition which has included such noted anti-semites as President A. Lawrence Lowell, (1877), Bok is also unusual for his liberal views. This political outlook, which some say has grown tarnished in recent years, was in part an outgrowth of his years at the Law School, where as dean he personally intervened in construction projects to prevent alleged discrimination against Black workers...
...outlook remains marred by the weak dollar and slumping bond prices. The employment report may lead the Federal Reserve Board to conclude that the economy is strong enough to withstand a further rise in interest rates, which would defend the dollar and guard against an acceleration of inflation...