Word: signs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Third World countries, government officials were loath to criticize Citicorp's new hard-nosed policy. Brazil's Finance Minister, Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, said he saw the bank's move as a prudent shoring up of its foundations. Said a top Argentine official: "It's the first sign that U.S. ^ banks are prepared to share the burden of the debt crisis." Other foreign moneymen welcomed Citicorp's action because it might mean that all U.S. banks will start treating Third World debt under the same terms as Japanese, West German and Swiss banks, which have already established substantial loss reserves...
Both the AWACS spotters and those on the Stark had missed the most ominous sign of all: just before its twisting turns, the Mirage had released one of its Exocet missiles. Within seconds it launched another. Traveling at more ) than 500 m.p.h., the initial warhead would reach the Stark in one minute...
Harvard's Coles senses a turning from the success cult among many college students. "Right now there are almost 1,000 ((Harvard)) students doing volunteer work with the elderly or with prisoners, or as tutors for children," Coles points out. He regards this as a hopeful sign of "decency, compassion and sensitivity to others, as well as to one's own needs." Some graduate students in professional schools, on the other hand, still seem preoccupied with their personal ambitions. In an effort to encourage moral inquiry, Coles taught a special ethics class at the business school this spring, using characters...
...deepening confrontation with Chun's rule. A congregation of about 1,200, including 800 Protestant and Roman Catholic clergymen, took part in an overnight prayer vigil for political reform at the Ahyun Methodist Church in downtown Seoul. About 40 participants had their heads shaved by amateur barbers as a sign of their determination to carry on the protest campaign. An estimated 750 riot police surrounded the church to prevent additional people from entering. Eventually, the police broke up the meeting with force, injuring 27 participants...
...long last the mini is back -- not the paper- doll dresses of the '60s but bubbled, tubed and sexy. In short, the very best sign of spring...