Word: faces
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Those laid off from manufacturing jobs face even harder struggles in an age of weak unions, flimsy safety nets and cutthroat competition from overseas. "The people who used to scrimp by are just not making it today," laments Jodie Goodwin, who heads a group of Houston social-action church coalitions. "Families that never were at risk before are having to make basic, tough - decisions about which bill to pay: utilities, groceries or rent...
...spending, which threatens to stifle growth for years to come. "We simply cannot go on doing business as usual in so intensely competitive a world," Sinai said. "This downturn may be a catalyst that will wake up the nation." If the recession does help inspire the U.S. to face its long-term economic problems, hard times could help achieve what eight years of debt-fueled prosperity could...
Moreover, Gorbachev and Shevardnadze calculatedly made their country's foreign policy a function of domestic affairs. If Shevardnadze's chilling prediction of an approaching dictatorship comes to pass, it cannot fail to produce profound and ugly changes in the face the U.S.S.R. presents to the outside world...
...President is staring history in the face on this Thursday morning. Given a successful resolution of the gulf crisis, scholars will pronounce his policy a success. If he gets into a stalemated desert war or simply puts off a bloody confrontation by a few months or years, he may be judged harshly...
...crisis was touched off two weeks ago when Michael Williams, a mid-level Education official in charge of civil rights, announced a startling reinterpretation of existing federal anti-discrimination laws. College scholarships exclusively earmarked for minority students are illegal, he declared, and institutions that offer them may face a cutoff of federal funds. Colleges and universities around the country immediately set off alarm bells and sent the Administration scrambling to clarify a policy that Williams had apparently enunciated without consulting the White House...