Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point of collapse. When Marcos came into power, many observers thought the Philippines would probably experience a boom of development and prosperity like that subsequently undergone by Singapore and South Korea. Yet today the Philippines has the lowest growth rate among the five members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...
...President Habib Bourguiba welcomed a contingent of 1,100 Palestinians who arrived Saturday by sea. The Tunisians had been busy last week erecting a tent village near Béja, 60 miles from Tunis, for the guerrillas. They were also refurbishing the Salwa Hotel at Borj Cedria, 16 miles southeast of the Tunisian capital, so that the tourist resort might serve as either a temporary or permanent headquarters for Yasser Arafat and 100 or more of his colleagues. The hotel contains a luxury suite for Arafat, a not altogether appropriate residence for a man of spartan taste who sometimes prefers...
Says Mickey Levy, vice president for corporate planning of Southeast Banking Corp. in Miami: "Every economic recovery the nation has had since 1949 has been accompanied by an ever increasing rate of inflation. I think that that kind of upward ratcheting will be broken this time around." Walter Heller, a liberal Democrat and sharp critic of Reaganomics, asserts, "I'm an optimist about inflation. I think that at last there has been a lowering of expectations," meaning that people no longer believe prices must rise faster and faster forever. Heller and others cite structural changes in the U.S. economy...
...intelligence agents picked up reports that an extremist splinter group of the P.L.O., run by George Habash, intended to assassinate the envoy. The faction opposed a P.L.O. withdrawal from Beirut. Habib spent one night in the shelter of the residence of U.S. Ambassador Robert S. Dillon in Yarze, southeast of Beirut. Habib also had to break off talks with the Lebanese from time to time when P.L.O. rockets exploded near the presidential palace, where the main...
...that the company had acted hastily and paid too high a price. Then the FTC raised antitrust objections. The agency argued that if Gulf bought Cities Service, the combined company would have too large a share of the gasoline and kerosene jet fuel markets in some areas of the Southeast and would own too much (31%) of the Colonial Pipeline Co., which transports petroleum products from Texas to New Jersey...