Word: partially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first sessions seemed devoted to a cautious feeling out of positions. But by week's end the group had made enough progress to continue meeting over the weekend, and some participants felt a breakthrough was near. They were discussing, among other things, a partial freeze on federal spending for the next two years; there was no word on what tax action might be pending. It seemed clear, though, that the summiteers were unlikely to go beyond a $23 billion deficit reduction in the current fiscal year and indeed were having trouble going that far. Said a participant: "Getting over...
...sponsors can find the money for such a project, she said, residents will rent their apartments, using partial government subsidies. Eventually, they will move in permanently and run the complex as a cooperative...
Sell orders swamped the New York Stock Exchange when it opened after two days of partial recovery from the Monday crash that obliterated $500 billion in U.S. stock values in Wall Street's worst crisis since the Crash...
...sure, Baker was not advocating a return to the gold standard, in which the price of the precious metal would be fixed in all the major currencies. But the Secretary said countries might use an index of the worldwide prices of gold and other heavily traded commodities as a partial guide in coordinating economic policies. If that index was rising, for example, it would be a sign of inflationary pressures, and nations might decide jointly to raise interest rates to prevent rapid price increases...
Ironically, that may necessitate a partial reversal of the Deng reforms. Small plots will have to be recombined into larger collective farms. The trick will be to rebuild communal farms without destroying the new incentives that have made individual farmers so productive. Specifically, the incomes that farmers make will have to rise with the level of production. Only by maintaining its delicate new balance between Communism and capitalism can China hope to feed its next billion people...