Word: peake
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...caused considerable concern in the Western Alliance by increasing their strength. Their tactic: backing social and economic reform while espousing democracy. But in recent years they began to lose some of their appeal. In 1979, Italy's P.C.I, won only 30.4% of the vote, down from its alltime peak of 34.4% in 1976. France's Communists saw their support drop from 20.6% in 1978 to 16.2% last year. Events in Poland have now created a crisis of conscience. Says Heinz Timmermann of the Federal Institute for East European and International Studies in Cologne: "Eurocommunists might well be presented...
...severity of the recession is greatly compounding Reagan's problems. Some Administration economists now expect the unemployment rate to peak at 9.5% in March or April; that would be a post-World War II record. Many other economists fear that the figure could reach 10%. If it does, and if unemployment stays high, the President's figures would be skewed. Every percentage point of unemployment adds $20 billion to the deficit in transfer payments (like jobless compensation) and revenue loss. One little noticed fact: although the number of jobless jumped to nearly 9.5 million in December from...
...this picture, Kim Seng?" The drawing is one of two he did upon first arriving at Khao I Dang. It is of three boys, stick figures, standing to the side of several gravestones. The background consists of a large mountain with a leering yellow moon resting on its peak. Perched on a tree is an oversized owl, whose song, says Kim Seng, is mournful...
Around the pontoon, boats chug and cruise?police boats, water taxis, sampans piloted by women in straw hats, ferries, tugs, dredges, schooners. Freighters with exotic names lie at anchor. In the background, the office buildings of Hong Kong Island stand pressed against Victoria Peak. Trinh Thi Nuong, 8, gazes at the city in open wonder. She is told that she looks lovely...
...Island's Newsday--sprung up to serve them. Further, the expatriates were replaced mostly by Blacks and Hispanics, to whom the News did not appeal nearly as much. Or they were not replaced at all; the population of New York has declined by more than a million since its peak after...