Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have warned that they would join in fighting the A.N.C. if it strikes a separate deal with De Klerk. What Mandela can do to unite blacks and lead them into negotiations will be better known when he is out of prison and able, for the first time in a quarter-century, to act freely...
Deodorant soap, pacemakers, food-color additives, blood banks, coffee, tongue depressors, eyeglass screws, tampons and cancer drugs -- all come under the scrutiny of the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA certifies the purity and safety of one-quarter of all U.S. consumer products, in addition to regulating the $400 billion food, pharmaceutical and medical-devices industries. But throughout the 1980s the FDA has been traumatized by budget and staff reductions, fusses over testing of drugs to combat AIDS, second- guessing over poisoned Chilean grapes, corrupt employees and controversies over the nutritional claims adorning food packages...
...endorsements for decades, and that the resolution passed--nearly unanimously--by the Cabinet this fall condemning Proposition 1-2-3 was hardly our "first officials political position." They had forgotten that PBHA is currently less "political," in that sense, than it has been at any time in the last quarter-century. They had Forgotten that the issue of political endorsements played almost no role at all in the PBHA presidential election...
Having endured Barco's best shot so far, the drug chieftains appear to be rebuilding their scorched empire. Cocaine production, which in September dropped to a quarter of its usual level of about 50 tons, is back up to 75%. Says a Western diplomat: "They were knocked off balance, but never out of business. If they need to boost production, they offer people double or triple salary. Money means nothing to them...
That is bad news for Wall Street, where buyouts have propped up stock prices and brought in fat advisory fees. Faced with a drop in the number of mergers and acquisitions, which fell 29% during the July-September quarter compared with 1988's third period, major investment firms have announced the layoffs of nearly 2,000 employees in recent months. Particularly sharp cutbacks have come at Shearson Lehman Hutton, which is dismissing 800 of its nearly 37,000 workers and said last week it would reshuffle its top management...