Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taxing? No borrowing? That prospect raised the concern that the money may have to come from cash-starved social programs. But that path could prove ruinous at a time when 29 deficit-ridden states are unable to provide adequate financing for such vital needs as education, housing and police protection. The cost of two days of fighting surpasses the $937 million that Congress voted last year for aid to the homeless. Meanwhile, demands on the budget are swiftly growing. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady warned last week that the savings and loan bailout will require $77 billion more in emergency funds...
This crisis-prone, autocracy-ridden area needs a model to emulate in the coming period of postwar reconstruction and realignment. Arab victors and vanquished alike will need in their midst an Islamic country that, whatever its faults, is a secular state with a democratic political system, a market- oriented economy and close security ties to the West. Turkey is not just the best candidate -- it's the only candidate...
...Skancke last August in publishing a cheerleading book, Productivity: The American Advantage). If the government could simultaneously broaden what banks are allowed to do but restrict their use of insured deposits, he says in a Seidmanian flight of metaphor, "we would have created sort of a minor miracle and ridden off in two directions at once, successfully...
Hard times in the airline industry have left a few strong carriers with most of the traffic and a handful of debt-ridden ones struggling to stay aloft. Last week two of the weaker airlines decided that a merger may help them survive. TWA chairman Carl Icahn, who began pursuing a merger with Pan Am two months ago, finally persuaded the rival carrier to agree tentatively to a deal. Under the terms, TWA would acquire Pan Am for $375 million, or $2.50 per share in cash and securities. The merger, however, depends upon Icahn's ability to provide a bridge...
...best two years," confirms Barbara. "But then I always think what I'm doing is best. I haven't had too many bad ones, you know." In fact, the First Lady has had trying times: she has ridden the political roller coaster with her husband, seen divorce and financial trouble touch her children, been slowed by illness. Yet she smothers it all with what one close friend describes as her "big optimism...