Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through an endless series of interim solutions is by far the most dangerous way to handle his bank's, and perhaps the world's, economic situation. As Paris Financial Journalist Cahier wrote approvingly last week, "In the kingdom of numbers, sincerity is always rewarded." Citicorp clearly wants its rewards sooner rather than later...
...combination, even for those days. No President -- or candidate -- standing self-righteously on the great political trinity of wife, family and honor can expect to escape the judgment of the American voters on his sexual conduct. In the past, that judgment was often made posthumously. Now it happens much sooner...
...arming and pushing the contras into battle against the Sandinistas, the United States has created a scenario. If we support the contras, we place our national interest in their hands. If the contras cannot win, as no one in Washington or Managua expects them to do by themselves, sooner or later the United States has to send troops to their rescue or sacrifice our credibility as an ally. If we rescue effectively, we have to invade...
...Reagan: "The final answer to the trade problems between America and Japan is not more hemming and hawing, not more trade sanctions, not more voluntary-restraint agreements and certainly not more unfulfilled agreements. The answer is genuinely fair and open markets on both sides of the Pacific. And the sooner the better...
...Reagan's 100% tariff on certain Japanese goods, the President said he expected to lift the measures "as soon as possible." That could mean early June, when Japan joins the U.S. and major West European nations in Venice for an economic summit. Nakasone would like the sanctions lifted even sooner. Calling them a "very sore thorn sticking in our small finger," the Prime Minister sought their immediate removal. But Reagan did not give any specific date. The U.S. first wants to see clear signs that Japan is living up to a 1986 agreement to refrain from selling semiconductors for less...