Word: planned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a winter in which they saw their local earnings devastated by rampant inflation (nearly 200 percent for the month of July) and were forced to endure the austerity measures contained in an emergency economic "shock" plan, the portenos of Buenos Aires are now breathing a sigh of relief...
...Peronist platform urging higher salaries for workers but offering no real vision for solving the country's economic woes, Menem stunned the Peronist faithful by turning to the leaders of a giant multinational firm (Bunge & Born), a traditional enemy of theirs, to devise the new government's economic recovery plan...
...thanks to an emergency plan that included a wage and price freeze and massive increases in public utility tariffs, inflation has fallen steadily: to 33 percent in August, 10 percent this month. Economists are even predicting negative inflation for next month...
...full pursuit of the good life themselves, few West Europeans would second that harsh assessment. The centerpiece of the Community's comeback is the E.C. plan to put in place something that Americans take for granted: a single marketplace in which goods, services and workers can circulate freely, and where competition can reward efficient enterprise. In 1957 the E.C.'s founding treaty promised just such a common market, but although member states dismantled intra-Community tariff barriers, they retained a bewildering barrage of regulations to restrict trade and curb competition. Although Western Europe has no immediate plans to create...
...have his respirator turned off. Some officials denounced that action, saying it set a dangerous example for the handicapped by encouraging them to end their lives rather than strive for a meaningful existence. In McAfee's case, Judge Johnson has exonerated anyone who helps the patient carry out his plan. John Banja, a professor of medical ethics at Emory University, notes that hospitals have no clear mandate for "treatment discontinuance," and the role of doctors and nurses in these affairs remains murky. However, adds Banja, "this is a clear- cut case of a rational adult. The decision lets McAfee decide...