Word: droppingly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...equity -- major Japanese and European institutions look healthier than their American counterparts. Yet foreign lenders also have their worries. The combined profits of Japan's 13 largest banks fell 11.6%, to $7.3 billion, in the fiscal year ended March 31, marking the first such decline in 10 years. The drop reflected the higher interest rates that banks must pay to woo deposits and hefty write-offs of bad loans to Mexico, the Philippines and other developing countries...
...games. More than 25,000 eager shoppers heading for the Swedish-owned store jammed the New Jersey Turnpike, and 200 others camped in the parking lot overnight to get first crack at the firm's $39 bookcases, $7 rag rugs, $98 pine beds and other basic furnishings. Parents could drop off their children in a play area supervised by store employees before turning to serious shopping. A lunch counter served plates of Swedish meatballs and boiled potatoes (price...
...Greenspan blinked. In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, he acknowledged for the first time that many banks are causing a credit crunch by being overly stingy in granting loans. As a result, Greenspan said, the Federal Reserve may act to "offset" the credit tightening by engineering a "modest" drop in interest rates...
...weakness has caused many companies to put away their help-wanted signs. U.S. firms created only 660,000 new jobs in the first half of the year, a 50% drop from the first six months of 1989. The dearth of new positions was matched by a corresponding decline in the number of job seekers. In a worrisome trend, 900,000 discouraged people stopped looking for work in the second quarter, an increase of 20% over the previous three months...
...takes to be productive if you don't go to college? The answer is no. We have not dignified alternatives to college. We are the only country in the industrial world that says to 1 out of every 4 of its young people, We are going to let you drop out of sight; we are not going to give you the tools to be productive. No wonder they drop out, because the market signal says to them, We don't care about you, so leave school. If you haven't got anything, $4 an hour sounds like...