Word: wilier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need here is 20 good Korean students," a U.S. official wryly notes. "The people ((in Panama)) seldom put it on the line." Frustrated as they may be, middle-class Panamanians have not suffered the misery that galvanized Filipinos and Haitians. And Noriega is no Marcos or Duvalier: he is wilier, stronger -- and more bloodthirsty...
...decline in farm exports for the first time in 13 years. Farm debt has burgeoned, from $140.8 billion in 1979 to about $215 billion at the start of 1983, while net income fell from $32.4 billion in 1979 to $19.5 billion in 1982. "The farm sector," sums up W.D. Wilier, executive vice president of the Decorah (Iowa) State Bank and chairman of the American Banking Association's agriculture task force, "is in a Depression-type state...