Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though this new optimism has buoyed businessmen and excited the stock market, TIME's Board of Economists warned last week that the progress on interest rates will probably soon stall. The board predicted that the prime will bottom out at 12% by the middle of next year and then begin to rise again...
...NUCLEAR WAR would kill millions of Americans and ravage the country for those who survived it. It would stall industrial production and it would destroy jobs. Consequently, few politicians support...
...made some improvements. The literacy rate has risen from 50% to 87%. Thousands of campesinos have received title to confiscated farm land. But an increasing number of Nicaraguans are beginning to compare the Sandinistas to Somoza. Says a plump, fortyish food vendor, standing in her tin-and plastic-sided stall in Managua's Mercado Oriental: "This is the worst we have ever had it. Everyone is waiting for Edén Pastora." They may have to wait a while. But the spreading disillusionment should put the Sandinistas on notice that political legitimacy does not come from just overthrowing...
...decision formally allows for a new unionization election, but members of the Coop's board of directors said yesterday that the management will probably appeal the case to the central NLRS in Washington--a move which could stall proceedings for months...
...vowed to keep talking "until the cows come home," and for five days Jesse Helms, along with a small cadre of other conservatives, did just that. The goal of the Republican Senator from North Carolina: to stall a vote on extending the 1965 Voting Rights Act. But with 78 Senators sponsoring the measure, the filibuster was doomed to fail. So late last week Helms relented, and the Senate overwhelmingly passed the legislation, 85 to 8. The bill will soon be sent to the White House, where Ronald Reagan has promised to sign...