Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronald Reagan is reelected. There is, in fact, little doubt that Nicaragua is now in trouble economically, and has suffered from attacks by the marauding contras. Robert Leiken, a senior fellow with the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, describes Nicaragua's economic situation as "really rough, just unbelievable." Leiken cites food shortages in the countryside, wildcat strikes in Sandinista-controlled trade unions and widespread protests against the Sandinistas' use of national conscription to defend the country against the contras. Says a State Department policymaker: "We and the Sandinistas both know they could get a better deal...
...government. Peres is likely to spend this week trying to patch together a narrow coalition with the religious parties. His Likud rivals are confident that the effort will fail, forcing Peres to bargain more seriously with Shamir over getting together, finally, in a national unity government. That may be rough going, since several of Peres' Labor colleagues oppose an alliance with Likud. As last week's exchanges between Labor and Likud proved, a government of unity would not necessarily be one of harmony...
...would vote for Reagan, 31% for Mondale (see following story). Interestingly, all the national polls found Mondale's postnomination surge to be short-lived. Pollster Lou Harris believes that the hoopla surrounding the Olympics "totally wiped the memory of the Democratic Convention away." Political professionals regard summer surveys as rough sketches of attitudes, however, believing that voters do not focus on the campaign until after Labor Day. Reagan's analysts say they expect the President's lead to shrink, but even the rare White House pessimists count on staying ahead by at least four points...
None of these findings, of course, necessarily means the election is over before the campaign has fairly begun. Though all the major polls are in rough agreement on the size of Reagan's lead at the moment, they have shown huge variations this year both from month to month and from poll to poll. That is not too surprising, since at the end of the Republican Convention the race will have rounded only the first turn, and relatively few voters have yet firmly made up their minds about whom they favor. In addition to the large undecided percentage, roughly...
F.C.A. has sailed into rough waters almost as suddenly as it rose to prominence. Starting with a small California thrift with assets of $390 million, Knapp, 49, built up the financial institution to its present size in less than ten years. Last year the Los Angeles-based corporation gobbled up California's First Charter Financial, doubling its assets in one stroke. At the end of 1983 F.C.A. proudly boasted a 600% increase in earnings, to $172.5 million, or $5.13 per share...