Word: worsens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moscow's terms. He praised the cordial state of Franco-Soviet relations. But he warned that West Germany's failure so far to ratify the Bonn-Moscow renunciation-of-force treaty "would produce a fresh crisis of confidence over the Federal Republic's policies and would worsen the political climate in Europe...
...were built in the U.S. The aerospace industry is the nation's No. 1 exporter of manufactured goods; last year its sales to foreign buyers amounted to $3.4 billion. If the U.S. loses the lead in aerospace, its balance-of-payments deficit (already running to $5 billion annually) could worsen considerably. Says Richard Marshall, vice president of DMS Inc., a defense marketing research firm: "The Senate vote on the SST lost us what might have been our leading export item from...
...negotiations will determine the state of U.S.-Chilean relations for some time to come. Whatever the results, there is some doubt as to the immediate benefits for Chile: the world price for copper has tumbled from 88? to 48? per pound in the past year. That drop could further worsen Chile's current 9% rate of unemployment, already up from 6.4% in November because of dire business uncertainty about Allende...
...responsible for PBH's inability to accommodate a number of students is patently absurd; that the committee impede funding because these students could not be accommodated is ludicrous. It is fairly obvious that denying funding to such a program is certainly not going to improve conditions; it can only worsen them...
What Can Be Done? Texas wells produce little industrial oil, however, and there is nothing that Washington could have done to prevent the shortage of heavy heating oil. For the next few months, the energy shortage seems bound to worsen, barring a return of tranquillity to the Middle East, repair of the Syrian pipeline break and a consequent freeing of tanker tonnage. Nuclear-power plants have been delayed by costs, safety concerns and opposition from environmental groups, and cannot be expected to fill much of the energy gap before the early 1980s. In the meantime, if the nation wants...