Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industrial currencies over the past three years, which has made U.S. exports less expensive in foreign countries, is at last having a substantial impact. Among the products selling particularly well in overseas markets: aircraft, office equipment and telecommunications gear. Says U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter: "The lower dollar has thrown open doors that were closed to American exporters for much of the decade." Says Robert Ortner, an Under Secretary for Economic Affairs at the Commerce Department: "This is a genuine export boom...
...administration that is willing to give General [Manuel] Noriega 120 days notice and a plea bargain ought to be willing to give the American worker 60 days notice before they are thrown out on the street," Dukakis said. He referred to a tentative deal to drop drug charges against the Panamanian strongman if he agrees to relinquish power and leave Panama by August...
Trench warfare in the executive suites. Longtime employees suddenly thrown into the street. An emotional battle for the very soul of an institution. The biggest headlines at CBS News over the past few years seem to have originated mostly behind the cameras. No company's inside gossip has been the subject of more outside scrutiny than that of CBS, and the result has been a small library of books on the network's inner workings. Few, however, have offered harsher indictments than two new releases that try to affix blame for the turmoil and shifting priorities at TV's most...
...have been a minor flap over the state budget. But nothing is routine anymore for Michael Dukakis, especially when it allows Republicans to snicker at his much touted Massachusetts Miracle. Last week the front runner in the Democratic presidential campaign was forced to concede that sagging tax revenues have thrown his $11.6 billion 1988 budget out of balance by more than $300 million, with additional red ink forecast for 1989. Since the Massachusetts constitution mandates a balanced budget, Dukakis must trim spending programs -- a task that should be good practice if he ever moves to the Oval Office...
Well, no one is about to be thrown into TV jail, but a new batch of shows is playing ever faster and looser with the line that separates fact and fiction. These specimens of "reality TV" come in two varieties: those that try to fashion drama out of real life and those that try to make drama look like real life. As the real and the fake get harder to tell apart, ethical and aesthetic questions get trickier...