Word: thicket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...countries are being crushed by their debt burdens, the U.S. now believes that their only hope lies in faster economic growth. To achieve that goal, Washington thinks the IMF should enlist the help of the World Bank, a cash-rich agency that has largely remained aloof from the debt thicket. The Administration wants the bank to lend money more broadly and follow up the loans with long-term economic guidance for the debtors...
Regulations and Standards. Imagine how confused a professional football team would be if it faced a different set of game rules every time it played away from home. That is precisely the predicament of the world's exporters. Every nation has its own distinctive, and sometimes impenetrable, thicket of product standards, customs procedures, health and safety regulations and testing requirements...
People played bridge on the patio furniture, and in the mornings Fran Markham used to conduct an exercise class. The view looked down the channel to the Atlantic Ocean and across to Boot Key, a tangled thicket of low-lying mangrove. The harbor is one of the few protected anchorages on the ocean side of the Florida Keys; it has been a major stop for anyone cruising to the Bahamas...
...industrial sectors targeted last January by Reagan and Nakasone for intense trade review (the other three: electronics, forest products, and pharmaceuticals and medical equipment). Though the presidential envoys may have convinced Nakasone that further movement is necessary, so far U.S. negotiators have made only limited progress in penetrating the thicket of rules and regulations that have effectively denied U.S. manufacturers access to the Japanese telecommunications market. Tokyo reduced the number of technical standards that telephone equipment must meet from 53 to 30, for example, but these still include many features, like the quality of voice transmission, that the U.S. leaves...
Ferraro sat before a thicket of microphones, three dozen TV cameras and 200 insistent reporters in a hotel ballroom near Kennedy Airport, ready for one of the memorable political press conferences of modern times. The questions, about her family finances and personal ethics, were complicated and often barbed, yet she managed to seem neither combative nor defensive. Her manner was precise and serious, but relaxed and good-humored too. Her answers were lucid and carefully organized, anecdotal and unpretentious. In North Oaks, Mondale stared at the TV image of his running mate, transfixed by her grace under extraordinary pressure...