Word: pelle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Offsetting these cuts, however, is a major hike in funding for work study programs from $550 million to $850 million. The level of Pell Grant funding would remain equal. (See accompanying story...
...presidential campaign of 1981, François Mitterrand sharply criticized that pell-mell pace, partly because a sluggish economy had dampened demand for electricity...
...bill that would have extended a provision under which U.S. military aid can flow to El Salvador only if the Administration assures Congress every six months that the country is improving its human rights record. The White House move drew angry denunciations from Capitol Hill. Said Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island: "We will not stand by to see U.S. military assistance poured into a nation that has not demonstrated a will to undertake basic reforms...
After spending 1982 in the doldrums, the economies of the nations bordering the Pacific are again becoming dynamos. In South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, where factories are churning out exports at a pell-mell pace, economic growth has reached annual rates in the 6% to 9% range, up from 4% to 7% a year ago. Japan is gliding along at a more modest 3.4% rate, but its government has a plan to spur domestic demand. Australia is bouncing back from its worst recession in three decades...
...down .6% from June. Otto Eckstein, a Harvard economics professor, predicts that the housing slowdown will help reduce G.N.P. growth in the fourth quarter to a 5% annual rate. For an economy in which inflation remains a constant threat, that may be a better cruising speed than the current pell-mell pace...