Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nations that have them would help calm currency fluctuations and boost the buck, others reiterated that global money markets are no longer behaving rationally enough to be quieted down easily. Otmar Emminger, president of the West German Bundesbank, confessed that he had "given up hope that the markets would react to logic." Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey found the entire world monetary system to be "in disarray" to the point of peril. The dollar rose a bit after the Senate's compromise on natural gas, the improved U.S. trade figures for August and Jimmy Carter...
...larger tax cut than the $16.3 billion approved by the House and may try to reduce the maximum 35% capital gams tax rate in the bill to 21%. The President has warned that if the changes are too drastic, or too much in favor of the rich, he will react with the ultimate weapon at his command: a veto...
...predictably appalled at the latest turn of events. "The Shah's concessions will only make the opposition demand more," complained one Iranian businessman. "Mark my words: we are headed for civil war." Fortunately it was much too early to tell how the Shi'ite Muslim majority would react to the Shah's about-face...
...meanness of an envious society. "Why," he asks, "is the runner a lightning rod for the anger and aggression and violence of others?" And Sheehan answers himself: "The runner puts himself above the law, above society. And men in gangs and crowds and mobs know this and react accordingly." Sheehan intones: "The runner knows of man's inhumanity to man firsthand...
...Miami. In turn, National could draw on Pan Am's big fleet of 747s for its growing transatlantic business, which now includes service between Miami, Tampa, New Orleans and four European cities. Indeed, a prime reason why Pan Am is interested in National is that it wanted to react to the competition posed by the U.S. newcomers to the transatlantic trade, including Braniff and Delta as well as National...