Word: primed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about 20,000 lawyers in the U.S. specialize in divorce, with another 20,000 occasionally handling breakups. According to Richard Podell, head of the American Bar Association's family-law section, 42 states now have some form of no-fault divorce proceedings, in which assets, not adultery, are the prime issue. These days, most divorces are conducted as negotiable business arrangements...
Arafat's critics, especially in Jerusalem, have grumbled about the "ambiguities" of his concessions. Yet Israel's own position has also been ambiguous over the years. For a decade after the 1967 Six-Day War, a succession of Labor Prime Ministers seemed willing to yield portions of the territory the Israeli army had seized in the West Bank of the Jordan River, . where many Palestinian Arabs live, in exchange for recognition and security. During that period, Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization regarded Israel itself as an integral part of the larger territory of "occupied" Palestine that they were sworn...
...just isn't working so far." Interest rates have been steadily climbing since March. The federal funds rate, which is the interest that banks charge one another on overnight loans, has increased from 6.5% to nearly 9.5% during the past nine months. Economists polled by TIME estimate that the prime lending rate will climb from its current 10.5% to 11% by June but will end the year at 10% after the economy slows down. As that happens, economists expect, the unemployment rate will creep up two-tenths of a percentage point...
...could the situation in Sudan get worse? Last week it did, as workers staged a general strike that closed the airport in Khartoum and shut down most telephone and telex lines. Rumors of coup attempts swept the capital as angry demonstrators took to the streets demanding the head of Prime Minister Sadiq el Mahdi...
...police scattering crowds killed at least one demonstrator, the government backed down and revoked the price increases while leaving the pay hikes intact. The swift reversal does not ensure a return to relative stability. The Democratic Unionist Party withdrew from Sadiq's coalition government, and the Prime Minister reportedly intends to form a new Cabinet with his other partner, the Muslim fundamentalist National Islamic Front...