In the lateeighties and early nineties, high inflation hindered economic activity and investment.
However, no shortage of foreign currency ensued because of the financial community's renewed interest in Brazilian markets as inflation rates stabilized and the debt crisis of the eighties faded from memory.
From one of the preceding items it will be noted that even in the eighties Edison perceived much advantage to be gained in the line of economy by the use of lamp filaments employing refractory metals in their construction.
But it was as nothing at all--a mere zephyr of ill wind--compared to what the Depression of the Eighties will be if your machine goes on the market.
But it did exist during the early eighties and its life was noisy enough for any man.
And according to the cow-boy code in southeastern Arizona during the early eighties among the outlaws, a champion must be ready to try conclusions in very much that same way on occasion.
But in the early eighties they did things more directly, and instead of the recall they had the "show-down.
Oh, yes, along in theeighties came the boom, and Samp tried to get in it and make some money.
At the close of the eighties the Colonel and all his tribe found that the stock of Eastern capitalists who were ready to pay good prices for the fine shimmering blue sky and bracing ozone of the West was running low.
Oriental immigration had been an issue in Canada ever since Chinese navvies had been imported in the early eighties to work on the government sections of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The middle eighties were years of achievement, of prosperity, and of confident hope.
Canada was striving to solve in the eighties the difficult question which besets all federations--the limits between federal and provincial power.
Traffic in Early Eighties Like other systems in the United States, the earnings of the Southern and Central Pacific railroads fluctuated considerably from year to year.
The eighties were characterized by a strong realistic movement, which went far in daring truth of description and brought problems of a social, religious and political nature under discussion in works of a novelistic or dramatic form.
After the realistic movement of the eighties came a romantic reaction with new lyrics and new novelists, who avoided the ruthlessness of the realists, but had profited by their merits.
I had known him back in New York in the eighties when he was just "Jimmy.
And in 1920, when again the clan gathered to bless the marriage of Fleur with Michael Mont, the state of England is as surely too molten and bankrupt as in the eighties it was too congealed and low-percented.
During the Seventies and early Eighties there had been a period of reform, incident upon his marriage with a pretty and high-spirited girl, and one of the city's estimable attempts to clean out its political stables.
This yearly function was given in the Institute of Art on Nob Hill, the wooden Gothic mansion with bow-windows, erected in the Eighties by a railroad millionaire who had barely survived his nimble victorious assault upon Fortune.
By the late Eighties he had disappeared into the north, and the careless city knew him no more.
In the early Eighties little had been written of him except in contempt or ridicule.
Towards the end of the 'eighties the electric light was installed on board both ships, and the only marvel is that it was not done earlier.
The officers who commanded the Britannia during the 'eighties were as follow:-- Captain R.
No one who has thus far perused these pages will be surprised to learn that the 'eighties did not pass without a committee being specially appointed to consider the vexed question of naval education.
I do not mean to say that you do not often see that stately garment on persons of authority, but only that it is apparently not of the supremacy expressed in the drawings of Du Maurier in the eighties and nineties of the last century.
The belief in lodgings was a survival from an age of faith, when in the early eighteen-eighties they seemed the most commodious and desirable refuge to the outwandering American family which then first proved them.
In the early eightiesit was found scratched upon a stone built into a wall (probably about the date 1200), during the restoration of Hargrave church in Northamptonshire.
While staying at her town house early in the eighties she took the jewel to a shop in Brompton for some slight repairs.
For music he cared little, yet during the Seventies and the Eighties he had a way of buying "Mason and Hamlin" organs, and sending them as Christmas presents to some of his farmer friends where there were growing girls.
Up to the early Eighties fresh meat was not shipped any distance except in midwinter, and then as frozen meat.
Wherefore, to turn back from these to the work of Kate Greenaway at the end of the ‘seventies and beginning of the ‘eighties is to recognise something of a revelation.
All through the early eighties a good deal of experimenting had been going on with the view of discovering a substitute for gutta-percha for the golf ball.
There, too, was Commander Stewart, whom I had known in the earlyeighties at St. Andrews.
In the early eighties the Weeping Willow cemetery was purchased by the village of Port Jervis and converted into a site for a school building, the bodies being removed to other cemeteries.
Shier, and since the eighties the paper has been conducted by the Gazette Publishing Co.
The Armenian, Syrian, Finnish, and Russo-Hebrew streams seem representative, and the first wave of Hebrews out of Russia in the eighties was superior.
When the colonial enthusiasm of the 'eighties began, Germany saw a fruitful field in the Pacific, and annexed the Bismarck Archipelago and the north-eastern quarter of New Guinea.
In the 'eighties the existence of the English college at Rheims caused several Catholic books to be printed there, notably the translation of the New Testament which was made in the college itself.
In the first seven years of the Eighties it was bonanza and in the eighth the town was dead.
In the Eighties a prospector in the then booming Calico Mountains, between Barstow and Yermo discovered an ore that puzzled him.
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