Word: overly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The plan exposed a rift within the Administration over trade policy. Commerce Department officials argued that easing export controls would allow U.S. companies to compete with computer makers in such countries as Taiwan and Singapore, which already sell relatively advanced machines to Soviet-bloc buyers. But Defense Secretary Richard Cheney...
The strike spread with electrifying speed. The first 77 Kuzbass coal miners walked off the job in Mezhdurechensk on July 10. The following day 12,000 workers from five mines in the area joined them. They drew up a list of demands, including better pay, more vacation, higher pensions. Their...
Sensing victory, the Mezhdurechensk miners went back to work, but the strikes were just beginning elsewhere in the Kuzbass and the Ukraine as workers pressed for assurance they would share in the government concessions. At week's end the strike in Kazakhstan was winding down, but workers in the Donbass...
The tremendous buildup of business debt during the long expansion leaves the economy even more exposed to the effects of a recession. Since late 1982, corporate debt has more than doubled, from $1.1 trillion to $2.2 trillion. Investors in junk bonds, the high-yield securities that account for $225 billion...
The blast is startling, and so is the reverberation that echoes like a landslide. But the sound of artillery fire -- the sound of war -- fades quickly in the gigantic stillness of mountain and glacier. Soldiers clad in dirty white snowsuits, their faces burned black by the sun, scramble to put...