Word: unfolded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Reagan's efforts on the tax bill fueled the market surge, the rally was initially ignited by declining interest rates and the stunning news that Wall Street's two most influential pessimists had changed their downbeat tune. The first hint that something extraordinary was about to unfold came on Monday morning. The First Boston investment firm announced that Albert Wojnilower, its chief economist, had revised his economic forecast. After warning for months that the huge federal budget deficit could send interest rates shooting back up again, Wojnilower now admitted that the cost of money would probably continue...
...scandal began to unfold in May, when a special audit at the Banco Ambrosiano uncovered $1.4 billion in questionable loans that had been made to paper corporations based in Panama. The companies, it appears, were controlled by Roberto Calvi, the bank's president...
...Sitting back and watching these episodes unfold, the state Medical Registration Board never acted on the cases of the letterwriters. It appears that they will be allowed to retain their licenses. Despite his conviction. Hussain also still has his license. Middlesex County Judge Joseph Mitchell stayed a registration board hearing on Hussain until after the outcome of the recently concluded trial...
Which is where the mind games come in because, of course, it is impossible to watch such intensely political statements and scenarios unfold without drawing rather forlorn comparison between their unquestionable moral stance and the tangled feelings established unionism evokes today. Program notes from the director insist, a little stridently, that "Cradle is not a period piece." and make a valiant attempt to focus on the play's anti-jingoism as an issue still desperately topical in the 1980s. But it doesn't really work, because the political issue gives the play its power; no spectator could respond emotionally...
...Democratic House, Jones' strategy is to propose his own budget, but not before April. Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois is trying to get "a better feel on the nuts and bolts" before approaching Speaker Tip O'Neill on a bipartisan package. As the budget hearings unfold, Michel may attempt to stage "test votes" to find out just where the members stand, both for his own benefit and that of Administration strategists. In the Senate, the Democrats have no game plan yet, but their leaders intend eventually to hammer out an alternative. "We want to save the country...