Word: parlous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shagari's main concern now is the parlous state of the Nigerian economy. When he was elected to his first term, Nigeria was booming as a result of high oil prices and expanding production. As oil prices dropped in 1981 and OPEC tightened its production quotas, Nigerian oil revenues, which normally account for 90% of the country's export earnings, fell from $26 billion a year to $10 billion. The government is currently negotiating with the International Monetary Fund for a three-year loan that will help ease its balance of payments deficit...
...Patrol and shift it to employers who have been turning a blind eye to their undocumented workers. But the bill is no panacea. The trek of immigrants will continue as long as some countries are rich and stable, and others are poor and torn by political dissension. Given the parlous state of so many other economies, the U.S. stands to be the land of opportunity for some time to come...
...line, the Apple III, went on the market in November 1980 and turned out to be, at first, a thundering dud, what Jobs now characterizes as "an evolutionary product." Apple recalled and repaired the machines, and manufactured better new ones. "A learning experience" is what Jobs terms that parlous period now. Lisa?"a revolutionary product"?will determine just how well Apple has learned its lessons and how tough it can be against a behemoth like IBM. Some outside the company who have used the new machine have been, at their most temperate, wildly enthusiastic...
...Britain's top-secret Cheltenham communications center, pleaded guilty to charges of spying for the Soviet Union. It was enough to give the already rattled British a bad case of jitters. Said a group of Conservative Members of Parliament who called for a judicial investigation of the "parlous" state of British security: "The time for bland assurances is long past...
...that the albums are in competition with each other, although both are on the same label, Columbia, and Bruce has frequently, and unfairly, been used as a stick to deliver a few critical raps on Billy's noggin. Much more interesting is the fact that, in parlous economic times, when the record business is suffering heavy sales deprivation and audiences are supposed to want only bantamweight escapism, two serious, ambitious, even dour, albums have scored big by hanging tough...