Word: shakier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exactly 2% and inflation starts to slow. But as a practical matter, it rarely works out." If credit is too tight, the resulting interest- rate run-up could trigger a recession. And if the Fed allows inflation to quicken, the markets will grow panicky and the dollar could grow shakier...
...waiting for disaster to hit, U.S. banks are making substantial progress in reducing their vulnerability to Third World debt. The banks have raised new capital, set aside billions of dollars in reserves to cover possible losses, and sold off some of their shakier loans to investors at deep discounts. Chase Manhattan, for example, has trimmed its Third World loan portfolio in the past year from $6.7 billion to $6.5 billion. Since the bank's capital has been rising, its loans to developing countries have been reduced from 185% of shareholders' equity in 1987 to 150% today...
...think that he would have learned to take the holidays in stride, to sashay through the swing season with a dignified sense of balance. Not the Captain. Balance was supposed to come with middle age, but these days he feels shakier than ever. The season overwhelms him with its polarities. Grand abstractions are undercut by particular forms. The gratitude of Thanksgiving reduced to a half-chewed drumstick. The generosity of Hanukkah and Christmas to Tammy Faye Bakker dolls. The renewal of New Year's to a horn toot...
majority becomes shakier with Laxalt's decision not to run again...
...farm products. By then the value of agricultural land had been bid so high that many farms could no longer earn enough from crop sales, even at Government-supported prices, to repay the loans. Land values began to tumble, making the loans secured by the land look shakier still. Interest rates fell, but not as fast as prices; rates remained high enough to increase the burden on farmers...