Word: shakier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...challenges. She reiterated her pledge to go to jail if necessary in resisting Congress's call for documents, though over the weekend intense negotiations were going on to end the confrontation. Stanley Brand, the lawyer representing the House in the dispute, warned that Gorsuch is on much shakier ground now. "We're not going to take some peekaboo deal," he said. How much more heat is the Ice Queen prepared to take? Said she, with a sweet smile: "Lots of it. I don't melt at the first macho scream, and I'm not melting...
...three-legged stool of Social Security, private pensions and savings. An average retired couple has an income of about $14,700 per year, of which 33% comes from Social Security, 13% from private pensions and 17.5% from savings, stocks or other assets. But now that stool looks shakier than a dairy farmer's milking perch...
...signature was a trifle shakier than usual...
...ruling junta, in power for little more than a year, seems shakier than ever. Divided between centrist reformers and military hardliners, it is unable to stop the bloodshed and appears to be increasingly vulnerable to a rightist coup. Many Salvadorans are resigned to the inevitability of civil war. At the moment, the government has about 15,000 men under arms, while the leftists have perhaps 5,000 active guerrillas; the military odds, in short, are roughly the same as the ones that the late dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle faced in Nicaragua at the start of the Sandinista rebellion...
Unemployment, although down from 18.7% in 1975, still hovers at a depressing 12%. Like most developing nations, Chile has been badly hurt by OPEC price increases. The country imports 75% of its oil, and most of that had come from two of the shakier cartel members, Iran and Ecuador. In March, Iran broke its contract, and Ecuador has also stopped selling oil to Chile, forcing it to pay the sky-high spot-market price. Fuel bills jumped to an estimated $771 million last year, from $429 million in 1978, torpedoing projections for an inflation rate of under...