Word: worsens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also speculated that relations with Cuba may worsen under the Reagan administration, making any academic exchange even more difficult...
Dependent on foreign suppliers for 85% of its petroleum needs, Brazil fears that an unchecked appetite for oil could stunt the country's growth and worsen its already horrendous 109% inflation rate. Five years ago, the Brazilian government began heavily subsidizing construction of new sugar distilleries to encourage the switch from crude to cane. As production of alcohol increased, new service-station pumps popped up around the country. At first, most of them dispensed gasohol, which was mixed at a ratio of 80% gasoline to 20% alcohol and could be used by regular car engines. But in the past...
...want to appear willing to improve Soviet-American relations, despite the hard-line rhetoric by President-elect Reagan and his advisers. For political and economic reasons, they would generally like to restore détente-on their terms. But their conciliatory tone also has a propaganda motive: if relations worsen once Reagan enters office, the Kremlin wants to be in the best possible position to blame the U.S. Amplifying the signal Moscow has been sending Reagan, Brezhnev's chief spokesman, Leonid Zamyatin, last week released exclusively to TIME an official statement reviewing the relationship between the superpowers as seen...
Ironically, West Germany's economic problems now seem comparatively trifling. Inflation is on the rise, yet still only 5.3%; unemployment is just 3.8%. But these numbers will worsen next year when the growth rate, now a feeble 2%, is expected to drop to almost zero, as rising prices for imported oil and increased foreign competition weaken the heavily export-based economy. The balance of payments deficit, which was $1 billion in 1979, will probably balloon this year to $20 billion, which would be the highest of any industrialized nation. West Germany has also accumulated a national debt so large...
...concessions made to Labor Leader Lech Walesa and his colleagues in Gdansk will, in the short run, worsen the economic picture. Not only will national income decline as a result of the strikes, but the promised wage increases will cost the government an inflationary $3 billion...