Word: rebuilding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subsidize the country to the tune of $1.2 billion a year. Says a U.S. analyst in Washington: "What other leader has managed to hamstring Arafat, persuade Israel to leave him alone, keep collecting checks from the Saudis, make the U.S. come begging, and convince the U.S.S.R. that it should rebuild his shattered arsenal...
...monitor and other extras. Anticipation of its arrival has already driven down the stock price of competitors like Apple, Coleco and Commodore. Says Esther Dyson, editor of RELease 1.0, an industry newsletter: "It is like living under Mount St. Helens while it is rumbling. You can't rebuild your house until after the eruption...
...speed with surprising swiftness. The Federal Reserve Board reported last week that U.S. industrial production, led by sharp increases in the output of steel and autos, surged 1.8% in July, the eighth monthly increase in a row. Convinced that consumers will continue spending freely, companies are rushing to rebuild their inventories. And with good reason: retail sales in July increased 10.3% from the same month a year ago. Sales of domestically produced autos jumped 38.5%, while home furnishings, including furniture and appliances, were...
...international troubles of the Japanese arise from their doing almost too well at their economic ventures. After 1945, Japan's industrial plant was in ashes. MacArthur said that he hoped eventually to rebuild the country to the point where it would become "the Switzerland of Asia." Today, Japan is the second most powerful economy in the free world. Its trillion-dollar-a-year industrial machine accounts for 10% of the world's output. By 1990, the Japanese may achieve a per capita gross national product that surpasses that of the U.S. As a 19th century French tourist said of another...
...Viet Nam-like operation known as the National Plan that has long been advocated by U.S. advisers, the Salvadoran army began chasing guerrillas out of the strategically important San Vicente province and prepared to stay a while to create a shield for a government-sponsored effort to rebuild schools, roads and medical centers. In Honduras, 100 U.S. advisers arrived last week to train Salvadoran troops, against a backdrop of new clashes on the Honduran-Nicaraguan border. "The Honduran question is getting some attention right now," said an Administration official, referring to the danger of war between Nicaragua and Honduras...