Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result, to use Ec 10 jargon, salaries, benefits and wholesale prices bear no relation to traditional market factors. For example, subsidized gasoline is sold to the public at seven or eight cents a liter when it really should cost between 40 and 50 cents...
...only does this mean that many Argentine industries are woefully uncompetitive on the world market, but also that the Argentine government invariably operates at a loss. In order to finance the massive fiscal deficits that inevitably result, the government simply orders the Central Bank, which lacks the autonomy to determine the money supply that our Federal Reserve has, to print more money. The inflationary tiger, once unleashed, proves awfully tough to tame...
...ordered that Healy not eliminate the volunteer program at the Cambridge Hospital, where layoffs have been announced as a result of the budget cuts. The order was sponsored by Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci...
Sometimes the push and pull between tough tactics and constitutional requirements result in a compromise. For years, drug dealers had made Chicago's public housing projects their roosting ground, selling from apartments and raking the hallways with gunfire during turf wars. Last September the Chicago Housing Authority launched "Operation Clean Sweep." Housing authority agents and police made surprise apartment visits looking for unauthorized residents, many of them alleged drug dealers who had moved in with girlfriends. But some inspectors tended to treat tenants like students in a dormitory, demanding that visitors leave by midnight and nosing through drawers, in effect...
...animal and plant life. If the forests vanish, so will more than 1 million species -- a significant part of earth's biological diversity and genetic heritage. Moreover, the burning of the Amazon could have dramatic effects on global weather patterns -- for example, heightening the warming trend that may result from the greenhouse effect. "The Amazon is a library for life sciences, the world's greatest pharmaceutical laboratory and a flywheel of climate," says Thomas Lovejoy of the Smithsonian Institution. "It's a matter of global destiny...