Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make an issue of the middle-class squeeze. He has proposed programs to relieve specific discontents. One would give students the rest of their lives to repay their college loans; another would require employers to buy health insurance for 22 million workers who have none. Bush, too, has seen the need to cater to the middle class. Last week he announced a plan that would allow savers to deposit $1,000 a year in accounts that would pay tax-deferred interest. Dukakis responded by waving a crumpled $20 bill to represent the amount an average family could benefit...
...without officially raising wages. Then in mid-August the Politburo announced that it would proceed with further commodity "floats," allowing the markets to set price levels for a majority of products. The result was a wave of panic buying and bank runs the likes of which China had not seen since prerevolutionary days. According to figures released two weeks ago, retail sales nationwide have leaped; they were 40% higher this August than last...
...plan. Borrowers would exchange some loans for long-term bonds, unofficially dubbed "junk debt." Interest on those notes would be guaranteed by special funds set up by the IMF, although the money would come from the debtor countries. Remaining commercial bank debt would be rescheduled. Brady, in what was seen as an attack on the plan, suggested that the Japanese proposal would transfer private debt to the public sector -- that is, to taxpayers -- since the notes would be insured by an IMF-administered fund...
...suave young man in a red tie and gray pinstripe suit is seen walking through a grove of trees outside Moscow's Ostankino television center. Vladimir Molchanov, 37, host of the late-night television show Before and After Midnight, is opening his monthly broadcast with an elegiac monologue on the passing of summer. By the time Molchanov has entered the studio, oak branch in hand, Soviet viewers have been treated to brisk, taped reports on an Australian stork breeder, a Japanese horseback-riding robot and the world's largest egg. The 90-minute show also features videos from rock stars...
...space program was last seen in the 1960s and early '70s, when the moon landings had to share television time with Viet Nam and burning ghettos. Since then, NASA, several Administrations and Congresses have found it politically * more expedient to build space hardware than to say what it is going to be used for. NASA and the nation have no program in space, no goal. It's as if the interstate highway system had been designed before the Louisiana Purchase and only went as far west as New Jersey. They build office parks where they need a truck stop. Most...