Word: reade
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Read you a story, Bruins...
...soviet, or parliament, as it joined in a battle of wills with Moscow. Near the cathedral steps, an elderly woman clutched a pennant of blue, black and white, the colors of the long-banned Estonian flag. Students in blue and crimson visored caps unfurled banners. NO TO COLONIAL LAWS read a sign in Cyrillic lettering...
...Michael Dukakis, the world's financial markets sent Bush a message of their own: the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 75 points, followed by the dollar's drop to near postwar lows against the yen. Investors who had sat quietly through candidate Bush's repeated taunts to Congress to "Read my lips -- no new taxes" decided that President-elect Bush had no convincing plan to cut the nation's towering trade and budget deficits. As the slide started, Bush hastily convened a seaside press conference to reassure nervous markets. With Atlantic waves crashing behind him, he allowed that...
...Improved trade figures did not stanch the bleeding; the damage was halted only by the purchase of $5 billion by foreign central banks, led by the Bank of Japan. Noted John Williamson, a senior fellow at Washington's Institute of International Economics: "Foreign investors are not happy. They read Bush's lips...
NATION: The markets read George Bush' s lips and send him a message: there' ll be no honeymoon...