Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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State and city treasuries are not in much better fiscal shape, since revenues from taxes on energy production are falling dramatically. In Alaska, where oil-related businesses account for about 85% of all economic activity, experts project a $1 billion shortfall in the state's budget by June 1987. The government last week proposed cutting $120 million from operating expenses. Both Texas and Louisiana are facing $1 billion deficits. Says Texas Governor Mark White, in a classic understatement: "We can't take oil for granted anymore...
...election year. The rhetoric used by both sides so far has served only to polarize the debate and leave a confused public to believe that the choice is between reckless belligerency and naive isolationism. For Congress and the Administration alike, the challenge in the weeks ahead will be to shape a policy that balances diplomacy and force, and then, just as important, to stick...
...acres. Duvalier's arrival was met with local protests. While authorities deny that Baby Doc will be permitted to live in France permanently, no country has yet offered him refuge, and the French seem resigned to letting him stay on--at least long enough to get his backhand in shape...
...long ago, moneymen started to look upon Latin America's ominous $370 billion debt load as the crisis that went away. The borrowers were gamely trying to make their payments and shape up their economies. But last week several Latin countries sent out new distress signals. Mexico's Finance Minister Jesus Silva Herzog, whose country's financial condition has been devastated by falling oil revenues, rushed to Washington to seek aid in closed-door meetings with Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, Secretary of State George Shultz and Treasury Secretary James Baker. Meanwhile, Peru suddenly withdrew its gold, silver and cash...
Even though other Latin American nations are in somewhat better shape than Mexico, they contend that over the long haul the debt burden could cripple their economies, stir social unrest and conceivably bring down their shaky governments as well. Declared Argentine Foreign Minister Dante Caputo last week: "This debt is the epicenter in the fragility of our democratic systems...