Word: squeezees
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though accessible to his inner staff, Reagan has proved an elusive subject to the press since taking office. Spokesman James S. Brady has noted somewhat gleefully that more decorum will be expected at press conferences. White House aides have clearly been instructed to cut back on their contact with journalists...
In Europe, France's reception of refugees has been impressively warm and well organized, largely as a result of strong public pressure. Stirred by the plight of the boat people and by their old colonial bonds to Indochina, the French have admitted 71,000 Cambodians, Laotians and Vietnamese. Indeed...
are putting a squeeze on profits throughout our agency. We have to look very hard at salaries and what we buy."
Says Emile van Lennep, secretary general of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development: "In the industrialized democracies, we let the success of the 1960s go to our heads. In responding to the aspirations of our people, we allowed our economies to become overloaded, overregulated and insufficiently profitable...
The squeeze on credit was a major burden on business all year long. Companies began avoiding new debt financing through the long-term bond market because high rates made that too expensive. Instead, they turned to banks for short-term loans that would not lock them into high rates for...