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...charging a high enough premium to satisfy the Saudis. At the Geneva meeting, Yamani demanded that the Africans raise their prices in order to keep the Saudis from being noncompetitive when they try to sell their less desirable crude. The Africans balked at boosting prices at a time of sluggish demand, and the meeting disintegrated into a raucous round of name-calling. At one point, Yamani reportedly shouted: "I am a man of the desert, and nobody is going to laugh at my beard." That was the Arab equivalent of saying, "Nobody is going to take advantage...
Sure enough, a sluggish Crimson suffered the next night from the multiple torments of an exhausting trip, upcoming finals and the Cornell heartbreaker. Center Monroe Trout did not start, still nursing a sore ankle he reinjured in the first half at Ithaca...
Beneath an asthmatic fan, the pianist eases from a tired collection of pop tunes to Elgar's Land of Hope and Glory. It is a curious switch because there is hardly any glory in the seedy Kinshasa bar near the banks of the sluggish Zaïre River and little hope for the country that bears the river's name. Though its debts are small on an international scale-only $5.1 billion-Zaïre is a financial basket case, a country so broke, so mismanaged, so beset by the global recession and, ultimately, so corrupt that...
These nations and many others are in a financial bind partly because they are dependent on exports to the U.S. and those shipments have been slowed by the American recession. In turn, sluggish growth overseas has hurt American export industries. Two-way trade troubles have thus created a self-sustaining downward spiral that is difficult to stop...
Okita believes that Japan nonetheless will double its growth rate, to 5%, by the end of 1983-but only with an upturn in the sluggish Western economies. Said Okita: "Japan cannot remain an island of prosperity in an ocean of recession...