Word: watch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to slow the economy and ward off inflation. The answer will have immense political as well as economic ramifications. In this presidential election year, the Republicans will jawbone the Fed, which now consists solely of Reagan appointees, to keep a lid on interest rates, while the Democrats will watch intently for any signs of partisan policymaking...
...Greenspan strives to curb prices, he will have to watch for trouble in currency markets. A further steep decline in the value of the dollar could fan inflation, since it would cause new increases in the cost of imports. Greenspan apparently hopes to avoid that by allowing a modest rise in U.S. interest rates, which will make dollar-denominated securities more attractive to foreign investors...
Inside the coliseum, spectators can watch snake handling by professional snake wranglers. There is also snake milking, butchering, gutting and skinning, the last done with the help of visibly squeamish volunteers from the beauty pageant dressed in blood-spattered lab coats. Three-dollar bus tours for those who want to see the snakes in their natural habitat leave every hour. A cook shack is busy producing corn dogs ($1) and deep-fried rattlesnake meat ($1). Take a bite; it tastes like turtle...
...Lucas had produced five of the eight all-time top grossers. But that was a long time ago, in a land far, far away. Lucas' fantasies went murky (Labyrinth) or smirky (Howard the Duck), and his empire suddenly looked as frail as King Lear's. So Hollywood is closely watching Lucas' $35 million gamble on Willow. But will moviegoers watch? To a genre weakened by formula and familiarity, Lucas has brought little new, just a reprise of his Star Wars plot and characters in sylvan gear. His Luke Skywalker is Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis), a dwarf in a community...
...first the KGB seemed content to watch from the sidelines as some 100 dissidents gathered last week. But as the group was winding up its second day of political meetings at a dacha outside Moscow, the authorities moved in and detained 23 people, keeping almost half of them overnight. Reason: the dissidents had proclaimed the birth of an independent political party, the Democratic Union, to challenge the Communists...