Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's problem is painfully real: how to convince a sudden rash of skeptics that he can balance the budget by fiscal 1984 as he has promised, thus avoiding both ruinous inflationary deficits and a continuation of the towering interest rates that threaten a new recession (see ECONOMY AND BUSINESS). Moreover, the now apparent inadequacy of the first series of budget cuts addressed to that goal has forced the Administration into an agonizing internal debate: how to reconcile the budget-balancing pledge with Reagan's equally heartfelt promise to launch a gargantuan military buildup...
...rules. The Administration has also cut back on the funding and powers of the FTC's antitrust division, which it had originally hoped to eliminate. As a result, the FTC has been less aggressive in opposing corporate mergers, a reversal that may be helping to fuel the recent rash of takeover bids. Last week an FTC official ruled that antitrust actions against the three largest cereal companies be dropped. The commission is also backing away from plans to regulate nonprescription drugs, require used-car dealers to issue warranties, and restrict advertising for sugared cereals and other products aimed...
...plot is serviceably convoluted, involving a Secret Service agent (Chevy Chase), a paranoid Graustarkian duke and his Sicilian assassin-in-waiting, a pair of Axis spies, 25 Japanese camera buffs, four dead dogs and 150 little people. (Make that 151: Carrie Fisher plays their den mother.) But Director Steve Rash's pacing is slack, the lighting is inappropriately murky, and eventually one tires of the endless string of tall stories and short-people jokes. Like Honky Tank Freeway, this movie is in desperate need of an ace farceur like Preston Sturges-and a niggardly accountant to ride herd...
...Mujahedin want a modern Islamic state, a fact that undercuts the appeal of the mullahs and their obsession with the past. The guerrillas are estimated to have as many as 100,000 people under arms, with several hundred thousand additional sympathizers. The clerics have accused the Mujahedin of a rash of devastating bombings, including the June 28 explosion at Islamic Republic Party headquarters that may have killed as many as 150 people...
...sudden rash of work stoppages, the first cases of labor unrest in Poland since March, could hardly have come at a worse time for Party Boss Stanislaw Kania. Not only is he trying to grapple with the country's worst postwar economic crisis, amid shortages of everything from basic foodstuffs to vodka and cigarettes, but he faces a key test at this week's crucial party congress. Renewed unrest could create a hard-line backlash at the session, one which will determine the party's leadership and policies at a crucial juncture for the nation...