Word: sooner
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...Sooner or later, Japan and the U.S. must face up to the Japanese constitution, which pledges never to maintain "land, sea and air forces." In view of this prohibition, a strong relationship between the U.S. and Japan is the best defense against the Soviet Union...
...that the recovery from last year's recession has finally reached the point at which employers need more hired hands to maintain rising output. Says Richard Peterson, senior vice president of Continental Illinois National Bank in Chicago: "Businesses found themselves having to call workers back into the plant sooner than they thought they would to build up inventories depleted by fantastic sales." In the opinion of Bent Hansen, chairman of the economics department at the University of California's Berkeley campus, employment is belatedly catching up to increases in production that were registered in March and April...
...things, officials wanted to change school textbooks to describe Japan's 1937 invasion of China as an "advance") caused major protests in Hong Kong, the South Korean capital of Seoul and in Peking. A few weeks later, Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines, publicly warned that "Japan will sooner or later, perhaps sooner than later, dominate...
Almost always, it seems, the Mexicans fall into success and then out of it before it does much toward eliminating the country's rampant poverty and underemployment. No sooner had Mexico begun to reap riches from vast new oil finds in the 1970s, for example, than the world's industrial economies became mired in recession, and unneeded oil was squirting out everywhere. Petroleum prices plummeted, deflating the hopes and dreams Mexico had fashioned for itself when it became the world's fourth largest oil producer...
...surprising 9.6%. Board Member Otto Eckstein, chairman of the Massachusetts-based Data Resources economic forecasting firm, was unable to attend last week's meeting but said in an interview afterward: "It now looks as if plant and equipment spending is already in an upswing, and this is happening sooner than many had previously thought." Data Resources expects such investments to grow at a steady 5% pace for the next two years...