Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, Greenspan, 61, will need to be one. The summer's respite can last only so long before the Fed nominee will have to deal with a flare-up among the many long-term economic woes the U.S. faces. America's giant twin deficits, in trade and the federal budget, are improving slowly but remain daunting. Their persistence could help send the dollar plunging again and pressure the Fed to bolster the currency with higher interest rates. Inflation has returned as a potential threat, while the Third World debt dilemma refuses to go away. America's aging economic expansion...
...fared somewhat better in other areas. In Paris, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas announced combined sales of $2.9 billion. But once again the U.S. was outclassed. Western Europe's Airbus Industrie consortium brought along its new jetliner, the twin-engine A320, which has amassed orders worth as much as $14.5 billion even before getting its final certification for passenger service. A French exhibitor summed up the bottom line in Paris for an American colleague: "This was not your best year...
...stage is chockablock with tenpins aloft, batons atwirl, trapeze and low- wire acts, fire eating and belly dancing, pratfalls, cartwheels and unicycling. Somewhere amid all this are the rudiments of Shakespeare's farcical plot about twin brothers and their twin servants and even a modicum of his language, although not without elaborate nose thumbing at his low and labored puns...
...next 10 years, these actors most probably will face what Marks calls the twin themes of acting: "insecurity and rejection." The bounce between those two experiences is "almost constant. You are always being judged and almost always being rejected," he warns...
...twin spectacles of students seizing police officers as prisoners, and of police barging into university classrooms, eloquently summed up the volcano of unrest that erupted last week throughout South Korea. Day after day thousands of university students gathered on campuses across the country to demand democratic political reforms from the government of President Chun Doo Hwan. They staged marches, hurled fire bombs, seized buildings, chanted antigovernment slogans and burned effigies of Chun. To prevent the campus rioting from spilling into the surrounding streets and possibly igniting more disorder, police used armored cars and tear gas, and charged with clubs...