Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couldn't keep rack of them by pounds and numbers at the same time." He started shopping around and finally acquired a $12,000 combination at a shop in Lafayette, Ind.: a microcomputer from California Comput er Systems, a video screen from Ampex, a Diablo word printer and an array of agricultural programs...
Virtually every corner of Mexico's diverse geography is touched by the economic blight. In the northern Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental mountains, which is the storehouse for an array of mineral wealth, mining production has declined by 10%. Mexico's manufacturing industries and light assembly plants, many of them concentrated in the smog belt that envelops Mexico City, are wilting. Because of foreign-exchange controls imposed last September, the dollars necessary to buy imported raw materials and spare parts are not available. About 36,000 trucks and 25,000 buses are stuck on Mexican assembly...
...President will visit Costa Rica, Brazil and Colombia in the next five days, and face an array of economic and political problems that in many ways characterize overall U.S. Latin American relations. Both Brazil and Costa Rica owe huge debts to American bankers and the U.S. dominated International Monetary Fund. The need for American economic support will probably ensure at least one warm welcome for Reagan; as Business week has noted, "Costa Rica...guarantees Reagan a friendly reception because President Luis Monge knows that U.S. backing is the only thing standing between his country and financial default...
...traditional routes through the Florida Keys and Miami have not been totally abandoned by smugglers, the operation has clearly thrown a scare into the drug underworld. Last week President Reagan vividly reaffirmed White House support for the campaign with a cheerleading visit to South Florida. He reviewed an impressive array of confiscated drugs, weapons and cash and paid tribute to the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Dauntless, which received a presidential citation for a two-year record of 126 arrests and the capture of 459,000 Ibs. of marijuana and 20 smuggling vessels. Later that day the President declared...
...York City. Creator of a popular 1948 ad that lucidly distinguished between a stock and a bond, Engel later expanded it into an investment guidebook for laymen (How to Buy Stocks) that sold more than 4 mil lion copies and helped sell the idea of investing to a broader array of Americans...