Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rivalries erupted in gunfire when members of the Jamiat-i-Islami faction, a fundamentalist group, were ambushed while returning from a five-day strategy session in the northern Farkhar Valley. Gunmen from a local command of the more radical Hezb-i-Islami faction killed 30 Jamiat men, including seven military commanders. Jamiat quickly pointed an accusing finger at Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hezb's leader, whose power struggle with the Jamiat leadership dates back to the 1970s. Without Hekmatyar's authorization, said Jamiat spokesman Mohammed Shoaib, "this incident would not have happened...
Porsche dealers know that Wall Streeters like to show off what they have. But among the pinstripe set, posing for Playboy is going too far. Seven of the nine stock-market workers featured in the August cover story, "Women of Wall Street," have left their jobs since their photo sessions last year. Lisandra Trujillo, a broker for South Richmond Securities, returned to school. But Robin Mormelo, an administrative assistant for the Stuart-James brokerage house, says she was denied raises and felt compelled to quit. Says Mormelo: "Maybe I'm naive, but what difference does it make what...
...Silverman, Ambassador-designate to Barbados and seven other Caribbean islands, has no college degree and no job history. In the statement of qualifications she submitted to the Senate, she cited her experience "planning and hosting corporate functions" for her husband, a New York City industrialist. In 1987-88 she donated more than $180,000 to Republican candidates...
...signals are abundant that the nearly seven-year-old expansion is stagnating. Retail sales are anemic, business inventories are growing, industrial output is shrinking, and the housing industry is struggling. Economists almost uniformly agree that growth during the next year will be very slow, but are divided about whether the U.S. will fall into a recession. The optimists forecast a "soft landing," characterized by minimal growth but no severe dislocation; the pessimists believe the long-running expansion is due for a bona fide recession, with widespread bankruptcies, loan defaults and layoffs...
After nearly seven years of expansion, a stagnant U.S. economy could mean that a recession is on the horizon...