Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Manufacturers Hanover is the latest target of rumors in the financial world...
...Manufacturers Hanover's mountainous pile of Latin American loans that made it a target for rumors. The $6.5 billion that it has extended to the region's four biggest borrowers represents 10% of the bank's total assets. If a wave of defaults by Latin American borrowers were to take place, Manufacturers Hanover would be in a very difficult situation...
...joke in Britain 40 years ago was that only the thousands of stubby little barrage balloons, tugging at their cables above every spot that might offer a target to low-flying German planes, kept the island from sinking into the sea under the weight of men and machines massing for Dday. London was a kaleidoscope of uniforms: British, Commonwealth, French, Norwegian, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, Polish and, of course, American. So many U.S. officers worked around Grosvenor Square that G.I.s walking through the area kept their arms raised in semipermanent salute. In the southern counties, near the coast from which...
...that the group lumps together all civilian casualties, including Salvadoran civilians killed during combat. Says a State Department spokesman: "There are two distinct problems. There are people killed by the military and paramilitary forces in bombings and shellings. We can't verify that every bomb hits the right target, but this is very different from dragging people out of their houses...
...leaving Government, Federal Reserve Chairman Volcker, the other leading opponent of the deficits, remains. He was reappointed in August 1983 to a new four-year term, and is expected to stay in his job at least until 1985. Volcker is accustomed to seeing the Federal Reserve become a political target in an election year. During the 1980 presidential campaign, Jimmy Carter attacked Fed policies as "ill advised" and grumbled about the "strictly monetary approach to making decisions...