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...slowdown in computer sales has been most devastating for the semiconductor industry. When the market was strong, computer firms were all wildly optimistic in placing their microchip orders. Says Ken McKenzie, an associate director of the Dataquest research firm in Sunnyvale, Calif.: "Every company that produced a clone of the IBM Personal Computer expected to get 22% of the market, and there were 60 of those companies." When computer makers realized that their sales would not come close to expectations, they started canceling chip orders, leaving the semiconductor companies to sit on mountains of inventories. The glut of chips drove...
Beyond personnel problems, Reagan faces the threat of a slowdown in his own political momentum. The eloquence of his Sunday speeches, on which he personally labored for many hours, could make up for the fact that Reagan had run into one of the major storms of his political life. And it came at a particularly bad time. Shortly before leaving for Europe the President had suffered a significant congressional defeat in his campaign to provide aid for the Nicaraguan contras, and his popularity rating dipped noticeably in the last job-performance polls. With his big legislative battles over the budget...
...liberalizing world trade (prematurely christened the Reagan Round by some admirers of the President). One aim would be to provide the world economy . with a tonic, in the form of speeded-up exchange of goods and services, that it might need to shake off the effects of a slowdown in U.S. industrial expansion. A more political, and more pressing, purpose was to give Free Trader Reagan ammunition to use against protectionists at home who want to limit imports. A quick start on tearing down trade barriers would enable the President to hold out hope that the U.S. could reduce...
...impasse over trade talks prevented any searching discussion of what had been expected to be another major topic at the summit: how to keep an American economic slowdown from triggering world recession. That will require faster growth in other countries, and some gingerly efforts are under way to promote it, but there was little analysis in Bonn of whether those efforts are adequate. At the formal sessions and in the final communique, the heads of government merely described the policies they are already following and pledged themselves to such unexceptionable goals as fighting inflation and creating jobs. Such cascades...
...internationally televised session with foreign reporters the week before. His point: the U.S. economy can no longer be the locomotive pulling the rest of the world behind it to vigorous growth. Others would phrase the problem more bluntly: some deft cooperative footwork may be needed to prevent an American slowdown from setting off a world recession...