Word: ued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus Nicaraguans continue to kill one another, one side getting guns from Moscow, the other side from Washington. Meanwhile, the armored knights of the revolution continue to clank noisily in the halls of power, shouting anti-U.S. epithets. Only last month Tomas Borge, the powerful Interior Minister, told a gathering in Managua that the U.S. was the "enemy of humanity" and vowed never ending battle. As he spoke, several Sentinels of the People's Happiness, as the ministry's police are officially called, stared fixedly ahead...
...pouring money into the economy and easing interest rates, the U. S. allows the dollar to plummet against other major currencies. Although most economists agree the dollar' s fall is inevitable, it is a dangerous move that will carry a new set of economic risks. Meanwhile, the U. S. is making progress toward cutting its budget deficit and encouraging global economic coordination...
Margaret Thatcher' s Britain makes a rich subject for Margaret Drabble' s tenth novel. -- A sardonic memoir of 40 years at the U...
...noise attracts a curious Kennnedy School dean, who happens to be followed by two rich Texans trying to gain prestige by disbursing cash. The four confront one another and, after a heated argument, strike a deal to set up a chain of "Harvard Grad School Diploma Shacks--instant while-u-wait" services in shopping malls throughout the country. Then they go off to have lunch. After they leave, a studious Harvard senior wanders in and fires off the pistol once more...
What concerned most foreign leaders was the possibility that the Wall Street crash would lead to a U.S. recession and then to a world economic downturn. Nervousness about that prospect led to a certain amount of pointed anti-U.S. feeling. "The problems we are facing are the result of policies from the beginning of the Reagan Administration," said an angry West German central banker. "American policy is mainly determined by domestic considerations, even if it affects the world economy. Such thinking is no longer appropriate." A survey of the top financial centers...