Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Premier Arnaldo Forlani summarized the mood well as he declared that "silence is more useful than an excess of words, and in this affair there have already been too many." He, as well as the Reaganauts, seemed keenly aware that the apprehension of the Palestinian hijackers represented a short-term victory but that the episode might even prompt new outrages. Said a senior intelligence official: "I expect terrorists to change tactics and attack U.S. officials and facilities again, maybe even in the U.S." The nature of terrorism is such that no one can tell where the next attack may come...
...verbal onslaught was the most dramatic sign yet that the days of free wheeling and free spending by the military are over. In Reagan's first term, Congress heeded the President's call to rearm America by giving the Pentagon $1.1 trillion to spend, a 36% increase after inflation. But irked by scandals over $436 hammers and $600 toilet seats and squeezed by the burgeoning budget deficits, Congress has increasingly begun to question whether the U.S. is getting its money's worth in defense spending...
...antinuclear Greenpeace movement. Opinion polls show that the voters are turning away from the Socialists to the conservative opposition parties. To many political observers, it now appears more than likely that the party will go down to defeat in legislative elections next March, which could force Mitterrand, whose term runs until 1988, into an uneasy and unstable "cohabitation" with a rightist parliamentary majority...
Congress has been increasingly concerned about the high cost of plastic credit. Three bills introduced this year would set a ceiling on charges. The measures, which are likely to be taken up in early 1986, would peg card rates to the interest on other kinds of short-term loans. One of the bills, sponsored by Democratic Representative Mario Biaggi of New York, would limit card interest to no more than 5% above the cost of 90-day commercial paper, a type of corporate IOU that now yields about...
Heading the list of prospective successors to Clausen is Paul Volcker, 58, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. One enticement: the World Bank presidency pays $175,000 a year, vs. the $75,100 that Volcker now earns. The Fed chairman, whose term does not end until August 1987, refuses to comment on the speculation, and aides deny that he has any interest in running the bank...