Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agreement will unearth older documents, the states may have more fire-power. But what will be the end to this war? Will states be happy with the destruction of Philip Morris, which has 48 percent of the market share? Even if the monolith did go bankrupt, another company would rise to take its place. No matter what path the government takes to its goal of recouping on Medicaid money spent on smoking damage, ultimately it will have to focus on young future smokers. Stopping young Americans, who are legally unqualified to make the decision to smoke, from smoking...
Because, his boosters say, Tenet's rise was fueled by smarts, loyalty, a taste for truth telling, and a commitment to reform that somehow didn't cost him the respect of the CIA. In 1987 he was a 34-year-old Senate intelligence-committee staff member when chairman David Boren chose him to be the new staff director. Boren put him in charge of auditing clandestine CIA programs. Tenet, says Boren, forced the agency to shut down two major covert operations after his staff found that case officers opposed U.S. policy goals and possibly allowed informants to siphon funds. Since...
...corresponding increase in the prime rate from 8.25 percent to 8.5 percent, and in turn a hike in the rates of the millions of consumer and business loans that are linked to the prime. Despite criticism that at its current 2.3 percent rate, inflation is quiescent, Greenspan thinks a rise is necessary to counter the inflationary pressures of high demand and low unemployment. The Fed hopes tightening credit will produce a 'soft landing' for the nation's economy by slowing growth. Because Greenspan had hinted for months that a rise might be coming, Wall Street's reaction to the news...
...well or that others on the list won't hit hard times. Prestbo warns, "Moving companies in and out of the Dow is not the same as a buy-sell decision." Consider IBM, which was dropped in 1939 but went on to post 29 stock splits and rise 21,843% before being added back...
...convincing argument that the blows of rapid economic change fall most heavily on those least able to absorb them, and that it makes sense, both economically and politically, to protect those people. He reminds readers that the economic dislocation of the '20s and '30s opened the way for the rise of fascism. One need only observe the growing strength of the far right in Europe or the strange appeal of ultranationalists in the U.S. to see how the ruthless efficiency of capitalism can create social unrest in tandem with wealth...