Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many economists are starting to believe that the dollar has become overvalued and will soon begin to slip. Rimmer de Vries, an international monetary expert at the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., predicts that the current account, which measures the net international flow of goods and services to and from the U.S., will swing from a $10 billion surplus this year to a $5 billion deficit in 1982. That deficit will in turn drive down the value of the dollar, perhaps by as much...
...civil servant may not continue to hold his job if he takes part in a strike against the Government; and the oath, signed by all federal employees, not to strike. But firing a federal employee is not as easy as a form letter. Two weeks after the first pink slip went out, the matter was still very much...
Long the bible of New York's ethnic and blue-collar communities, the News started to slip as its traditional audience moved to the suburbs. Circulation dropped from 1.9 million in 1975 to 1.5 million last spring. To stanch the flow, the News and the parent Chicago Tribune Co. decided to seek a new readership among New York commuters and affluent Manhattan residents. They launched Tonight as a sophisticated answer to Rupert Murdoch's sensation-mongering New York Post, which had the afternoon market all to itself. Clay Felker, who had founded New York magazine, was brought...
...million-a-year rate needed just to keep up with those potential buyers. Robert Sheehan, director of economic research for the National Association of Home Builders, believes that the 1980s could still be a very strong decade for housing. But that will occur only if mortgage rates begin to slip from their current record levels. - By John S. DeMott...
...back to Novsibirsk or else Pauline Kael then takes a look at it from the loftiness of The New Yorker and proceeds to chat about Eisenstein and the "true" cinematic revolutionaries like Godard. If it's lucky, Stanley Kauffman will give it three stars in the New Republic and slip in a little treatise on censorship. The film is craftily analyzed for corniness; (Hollywood has invariably done it before; these Russians, of course, have had very little art since Stalin's time), foreigness (Moscow's architecture, clothing and venacular are checked for honest-to-God Communist values. Beware the film...