Word: overing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the new scheme, the commercial banks will have three options. They may cut the outstanding balance of their Mexican loans by 35%, reduce the interest on such loans from a floating rate (which has ranged from 9% to 14% and is currently 9.5%) to a fixed level of 6.25...
The image is gripping: Mikhail Gorbachev as the daring surfer, nimbly sliding across a wave, vanishing into the spume, only to reappear, confidently using the giant comber looming over him to increase his speed. That is the Soviet President's way with crises. He seems to react to them faster...
Also worrisome to Gorbachev may be the workers' determination to become a force in upcoming union and local elections. Gorbachev says he wants to keep them inside officially sponsored organizations, urging their leaders to "think over what happened and what to do to make sure unions carry out their role...
Drafted into the J.S.P. in 1969 to boost its sagging fortunes, the constitutional lawyer has proved to be an able attention getter. Her academic background and her ruthlessly logical arguments, boomed out in her loud voice during the Diet's question hour, have instilled fear in the ruling Liberal Democratic...
The Soviet account in this age is a contradiction of almost everything practiced by the eight Presidents who preceded Bush over the past 43 years. Ronald Reagan, with a certain grim humor, could tell how he had written notes to three Soviet leaders in a row; before the letters reached...