Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short-term benefits of [the current] policies are outweighed by substantial long-term costs to the economy, the national defense and the democratic tradition of open government," the report says...
...profile that draws a straight line through his trigger finger and by the leap of the bullet into the fear-rigid Viet Cong's brain: a crisp extinction. The weird surprise of death, the pop into non-being. In the TV version, the man falls like a short tree and his head pours neat but urgent blood upon the street, as from a vial...
...short, it was as if there was a large "No Vacancy" sign on our front door. There was a desire on both sides to overcome that perception, to convince incoming Black undergraduates that it is worth their while to comp for the paper. But the level of distrust, on both sides, was high. Too high...
Members of the rational-expectations school, which holds that people keep a sharp eye on government policies and then act accordingly, were also caught short by inflation's fall. "If you had listened to me eight years ago," says University of Chicago economist Robert Lucas, "I would have predicted an inflation rate of 25% with these deficits...
...intriguing prospect of a historic meeting between the Communist Party chief and the Pope. And with a quick one-two punch, Gorbachev announced plans to reduce the Soviet military budget by 14.2%, while his Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, unveiled plans for unilateral reductions of one-fifth of the short-range nuclear missiles in Eastern Europe...