Word: interests
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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November election. On Nov. 20, it hit a 1980 peak of 1000.17. Soon, though, stock prices began to tumble because of fear of high interest rates and another recession. The Dow Jones closed last week...
Reagan will now use the untested, and controversial, program of large budget reductions and tax cuts to fight the new dilemma: high interest rates, growth, roaring and persistent unemployment. The well-being of American business during 1981 and for years to come will rest on the outcome of that experiment...
Chrysler's problems, though, have been building for months. High interest rates, an initial shortage of low-cost models and the unwillingness of customers to buy cars from a company that seemed about to go out of business have cut in half projected sales of the stylish, economical K-car. Even the once popular sub-compact Dodge Omnis and Plymouth Horizons are selling poorly, and dealers now have more than a 120-day supply, twice the desired amount. As the auto industry last week prepared for its annual holiday shutdown, only three of Chrysler's six assembly plants...
...Washington. Reagan opposed the original Chrysler bailout package, and after Inauguration Day his aides will sit on the board that will determine federal aid. G. William Miller, the outgoing Treasury Secretary, last week held meetings of the Loan Guarantee Board and said he thinks it is "in the national interest" to keep Chrysler alive. The board was expected to consider the company's aid request officially this week...
Like so many movies and books that try to graft topical subject matter onto the obsessive mass-market interest in the Nazi past. The Formula requires too much exposition. By the time all the improbable explanations for its linkages between a fast-receding past and today's headlines have been laid out, all the false trails explored, the action lies buried under a pile of verbiage. It used to be that detective stories were lean and laconic. The attempt to give them spurious importance by having them address what are thought to be big subjects is ruining them. They...