Word: recently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-term stand remains a wild card. "We, of course, pay close attention to other countries' opinions," said a spokesman for the Japanese government. "We have not fixed our position." The Japanese have every right to feel that many Western nations have shifted their stance rather abruptly. Until its recent trade curbs, the U.S. bought one-third of Hong Kong's ivory products...
...because tusk sizes during the period fell from about 18 lbs. to 9 lbs. Older elephants have been wiped out in many herds, and younger animals are now the targets. Breeding patterns have been disrupted. In Tanzania's Mikumi National Park, 72% of the elephant families observed in a recent study were either missing adult females or were composed mostly of orphans...
...management greater flexibility to issue new stock in order to make a takeover more expensive. The Fort Worth company also signed up the high-powered Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers to develop a full-defense strategy. AMR even asked the New York Stock Exchange to investigate recent large trades in its stock, which caused volatile swings in its share price...
Even sobersided economists accept that there is something odd about the Italian experience. A recent scholarly study, The Italian Miracle, does smack of the supernatural compared with the German miracle, which was 99% hard work. But there are rational elements. Italians are great savers, squirreling away 15% of income, much of it in government securities. Fully 97% of the national debt is funded domestically, and nearly two-thirds of the negotiable state debt is in the hands of individuals. This mode of saving doubtless owes something to exchange controls and preferential tax treatment, but Italians have been willing buyers...
...typical boot camp is the Al Burruss Correctional Training Center in Forsyth, Ga., where 150 inmates are housed in two-level, spartan, modern facilities. A scene one recent morning: correctional officer Eddie Cash greets burglar Robert Parker and three other new inmates with a stream of profane abuse...