Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wouldn't trade my position for a place in one of those other conferences," Halas says. "I prefer a situation where a balance between basketball and academics is achieved...
Some economists are convinced that only a further drop in the dollar can substantially reduce the trade deficit -- by making imports more expensive and American goods cheaper overseas. While economists have been calling for a weaker dollar for years, they are less certain about precisely how far the dollar should fall. The major industrial countries are reluctant to allow any additional dip in the dollar. The U.S. knows that a falling greenback could bring rising inflation and interest rates, while America's trading partners are worried about their export industries. Just before the trade report was released last week, finance...
...central bankers tried to back their words with action. When the dollar began tumbling in midweek, they quickly intervened in foreign exchange markets, buying up the U.S. currency. But the strategy only slowed the greenback's retreat, and if the trade picture keeps deteriorating, central bankers will find it increasingly difficult to prop up the dollar. Investor pressure to drive the currency down could prove overwhelming. Says Howard Wachtel, professor of economics at American University: "If the dollar really falls outside the band agreed to by the G-7 and direct intervention cannot restore it, then we risk a free...
...primary season that has lacked emotional issues, drugs is the one subject thus far that seems to touch the voters directly, viscerally. Unlike the national debt and the trade deficit, it is neither abstruse nor abstract. It is a backyard issue. It is also one with wide appeal: it allows a candidate to sound tough in both domestic and foreign affairs while arousing passions among all economic groups, from the mean streets of the South Bronx to the manicured lawns of Westchester County. A recent New York Times/CBS News poll showed that Americans believed, 3 to 1, that fighting...
...growing trade deficit and faster inflation threaten the expansion. -- The FAA cracks down. -- U. S. publishing' s French accent...