Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Before that time a lot of turmoil and changes are going to be happening in the world. We don't believe the world will self-destruct. Through it all we're going to reach world peace, but a lot of us won't be here for it," she says...
Sociologists caution that the decline is not a sign that women are choosing the altar over the office. Rather, it may be that women as a statistical group have now delayed marriage as long as possible. "At some point," says the Census Bureau's Steve Rawlings, "all these trends reach a peak period of stabilization...
...starchy to you but in fact have never been looser. They proceed then to offices populated with machines designed to give them back the free time they have nearly forgotten how to use. En route they pass some people with telephones in their cars, dealing with those they cannot reach because of traffic jams. Some others they pass make homes out of shopping carts, speak the language of the mad, and stare at their own loneliness with disbelief...
...twin deficits -- budget and trade -- have created a historically unprecedented pile of external U.S. debt. America now owes foreign creditors nearly $200 billion, making it the world's largest debtor country. If trade deficits were to continue at their current level, the debt could reach $800 billion by 1991, Feldstein estimated. More ominous, U.S. debt could suddenly hit a critical point at which foreign investors become concerned that their money is concentrated too much in one place. Any sudden loss of confidence, said De Vries, could send the dollar into a steep fall. A plunge in the dollar could ignite...
...suit, Smith Barney claims that Goodyear Chairman Robert Mercer and Goldsmith made misleading public statements before their agreement was announced, implying that they would not reach a greenmail settlement. Smith Barney, which had paid more than $47 each for nearly 1.3 million shares of Goodyear, expecting a price spurt during the takeover struggle, took a paper loss of $17 million when the value of the stock flattened overnight. In addition to Smith Barney's action, six other lawsuits have been filed by Goodyear shareholders. They want the same price for their shares that Goldsmith...