Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haitian opposition, factious even in the best of times, is divided over what steps should be taken to achieve that goal. Some are advocating a boycott of any government-sponsored elections. Three trade unions have called for a general strike to begin this week. Many Haitians, even staunch nationalists in the slums and the posh capital suburbs, are calling for foreign intervention of some sort. A few are counseling insurrection. Says Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, 34, a firebrand priest popular with the poor: "There is only one avenue to take, and that is revolution...
...years of chaos that accompanied the rise of the Solidarity trade union and the national malaise brought on by martial law in 1981 have taken a severe toll on an economy that was already creaky. Living standards have fallen below their 1975 levels, with wages averaging less than $90 a month. Technologically, the country is so backward that many farmers still plant and harvest from horse-drawn carts, while many factories run on steam-powered . machinery from the last century. Even Lech Walesa, former leader of the now outlawed Solidarity, favors basic economic reforms. "The point is not to fight...
...Japan's trade surplus has piled up and stirred resentment among other nations, the government has been forced to change its stance. National policy now calls for a boost in consumption so that Japanese manufacturers can sell more at home and less overseas. Beginning next year, interest on savings accounts will be taxed at a 20% rate. In the meantime, at least part of the population has started to loosen up. Credit-card use has risen sharply, especially among the young, and some Japanese are going into debt to take vacations or buy TV sets...
Parker's influence in the wine trade is fairly awesome itself. In France, some vintners await his thrice-yearly tasting visits with the same trepidation that restaurateurs have for the annual Le Guide Michelin ratings. Craig Goldwyn, editor of the rival International Wine Review, says Parker has "one of the greatest palates ever to walk the earth," although some writers complain that as a taster he favors strength over subtlety. (Parker, of course, denies it.) His critics also carp that his success is based primarily on a 50-to-100-point rating system for wines that is fast becoming...
...many Western strategists. The U.S. was asking the Soviets to give up real weapons, already deployed at great expense, in return for the U.S.'s tearing up a piece of paper. Washington wags said it was like the Redskins trying to persuade the hated Dallas Cowboys to trade Tony Dorsett for a future draft pick. Administration officials privately conceded that the zero option was not intended to produce an agreement before NATO deployment began in late 1983. Rather, it was a gimmick -- part of an exercise in what Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, Haig's chief deputy for arms...