Word: spate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spate of economic reports last week tended to support that view. Buoyed by a 7.1% jump in August purchases of U.S.-made cars, retail sales rose a strong 1.9% for the month. Much of the big auto gain reflected the low-cost financing that car- makers used to help clear dealers' lots. The Government also disclosed that industrial production rose a modest .3% in August, after remaining unchanged in July. The small increase showed that imports continue to cut deeply into American factory output...
...corporations, it is the mountain of debt that has been created by a spate of fierce merger wars. Consumers who have been seduced by easy credit know it as the flood of bills that arrive each month. For the Government, it is the largest and most menacing budget deficits in U.S. history. From whatever vantage point it is viewed, Americans have been on a frantic borrowing binge. And that vast accumulation of IOUs has become a frightening threat to economic well-being...
Amid this spate of unexpected appointments, another decision was announced in relatively muted fashion by both Moscow and Washington. President Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev will hold the first U.S.-Soviet summit meeting in six years, in Geneva on Nov. 19 and 20. Both sides were careful to limit the potential significance of the scheduled encounter...
...From San Francisco to Cairo, airports tightened security arrangements, stepping up passenger, baggage and cargo inspections. After an initial flurry of reservation cancellations, these precautions seemed to calm travelers' fears. Still, the spate of bomb threats in the U.S. and overseas, all false alarms, forced several airliners to delay takeoffs or make emergency landings. Passengers did not complain. "I'd rather spend two hours in line here than end up in the Atlantic Ocean," said David Murley of Toronto as he headed for London...
...majority upheld most of Washington State's tough 1982 antipornography law, ruling that it could ban distribution of "lascivious" material. But the state went too far when it included material that merely "incites . . . lust," wrote Justice Byron White, because lust implies only "normal, healthy sexual desires." Last week's spate of decisions left the Justices with 31 more cases to resolve as they near adjournment for the summer vacation...