Word: paying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...necessity of the military and of the possibility that Harvard students could change it from within were simply irrelevant. Many of the PC ideologues dismissed the military as homophobic, sexist, racist, classist, anti-intellectual and--God Forbid!--violent. Since the military is so clearly evil, we should not pay the least attention to its supporters...
...demonstrators took their protest to the streets of Cambridge, holding up traffic on Mass. Avenue and chanting "Cristiani kills; we pay the bills...
While American borrowers could afford to pay a hefty premium to finance the U.S. deficit during good times, the country will have a difficult time supporting its debt habit during a slowdown. Says Karin Lissakers, a professor of international affairs at Columbia University: "Let's face it, like any country that has gone deeply into debt, the U.S. has lost its autonomy in economic affairs...
...again puts the Federal Reserve in a precarious position. If the Fed leaves interest rates where they are, the economy might slide into a recession. But if it eases rates, the already flagging U.S. dollar might slump even more, which could readily spark inflation because Americans would have to pay more for imports. Even so, the Bush Administration hopes that the Fed will ease its grip on credit. Bush publicly called for lower rates when he addressed a group of homebuilders in Atlanta two weeks ago. Said Bush: "I want to see them come down even more...
When Union Carbide agreed last year to pay $470 million to compensate victims of the 1984 toxic-gas leak that killed more than 3,400 people in Bhopal, India, the company hoped it had put the world's worst industrial accident behind it. But after less than two months in office, the government of Prime Minister V.P. Singh last week disavowed the settlement. New Delhi said it would demand the $3 billion in damages that India originally sought and would seek to reinstate criminal charges against Union Carbide executives...