Word: springly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...year ago when the Punch, a newspaper that is more noted for its third-page cheesecake than its investigative prowess, reported that approximately $5 billion was missing from the accounts of the government-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. In response to the charges, the newly installed Shagari government last spring appointed a five-man tribunal to investigate. The group's report, which was released two weeks ago, noted that the government's oil records were a shambles, but that there was no evidence of any missing funds...
...Inside Sports article, titled "Trou ble in Paradise," was written by Freelancer Pat Jordan, a former pitcher in the Milwaukee Braves' farm system, who described his baseball experiences in the 1975 book A False Spring. He characterizes Cyndy Garvey in the article as restive at having to subordiate herself to her husband's stardom and to endure the loneliness of his lengthy road trips. "You can't even make love to your husband when you want to," she is quoted as saying...
...MONEY. Koch might have balanced the budget even earlier than promised had New York not been hit by a public transportation strike last spring. The wage settlements that ended that strike and averted another by city workers in June gave the unions raises averaging 17% over the next two years. That, in turn, put the city's $13.58 billion budget back into the familiar red. Earlier this year Koch told Congress that he anticipated no more than 4% in wage hikes for each of the next two years. Now, he expects a $265 million deficit for this year?$135 million...
...civilian government that will be elected next year. Last April's voting for a Constitutional Assembly gave a majority to the old Liberal Party, which was last in office in 1963, and made its leader, Roberto Suazo Córdova, 53, the front runner in next spring's presidential contest. Meanwhile, the Paz Garcia government, relatively moderate for a military regime, has raised minimum wages and begun to redistribute land in an effort to stave off social unrest...
Savvy money managers began looking at stocks with renewed interest last spring, when they decided that the second quarter's 9% drop in the gross national product did not necessarily foreshadow a long and deep recession. After all, there were some signs of economic health to be seen. Interest rates started falling rapidly in May, following the peaking of inflation at 18% in March; the "leading" indicators, which point to the future direction of the economy, turned up smartly in June, and housing began to show signs of renewed life in July. For many professional investors, the most convincing...