Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. But he and other professionals acknowledge the toll that such a relentless pace takes on creativity. No instrument, no invention, can emit an utterly original thought. "I flew 80,000 miles last year," says economist James Smith of the Rand Corp. "You start losing touch with things. My work is research, which at its best is contemplative. If you get into this mode of running around, you don't have time to reflect...
...addicted to overworking," says Nancy Baker-Velasquez, a partner in an insurance brokerage in California, whose husband is a sheriff's deputy on the night shift. "At the same time, you have so many more obligations as a parent now. These days, you have to start brushing their teeth even before they have teeth...
American television manufacturers were the first to fall. Then Japanese firms rolled through markets ranging from autos to semiconductors. Now many Washington politicians fear that U.S. plans to develop the FSX fighter jet with Japan could give Tokyo a vital jump start in the aerospace industry, one of the few high-technology fields in which American companies still dominate. The growing outcry has transformed the proposed jet, an advanced version of the F-16, into a powerful symbol of the rising tensions between two countries that are close military and diplomatic allies but also archrivals for the economic leadership...
...Bush Administration, in asking for safeguards in the deal, is not trying to crush Japan's aerospace ambitions or force Tokyo to buy wholly U.S.-made planes off the shelf. Rather the struggle over the FSX appears to mark the start of a new get-tough era in U.S. relations with its trading partners. Armed with the Super 301 weapon provided by Congress, the White House in coming months could bring actions against Japan if the U.S. determines that Tokyo has failed to open its markets for everything from weather satellites to financial services. Moreover, the Administration now considers...
...country's debt or the interest charged. It remains doubtful, however, that the IMF deal, which is part of a new U.S. policy announced last month by Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady and which could reduce Mexico's debt load by as much as 20%, is enough to jump-start the country's stalled economy. And even if it can, there is no guarantee that the effects will trickle down to the middle- and lower-class Mexicans who need help desperately. Says a U.S. State Department official, with considerable understatement: "The average Mexican will have to ask himself the old Reagan...