Word: leveled
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Pechman estimated that federal spending will be $660 billion in the 1981 fiscal year that began in October. Given the current level of taxation and continued weakness in the economy, that will mean a budget deficit of about $60 billion before any Reagan tax cut. If tax reductions are enacted, the deficit could easily go to perhaps $75 billion. Much of the increase will come from so-called uncontrollable budget categories such as interest on the national debt, unemployment compensation insurance and welfare payments...
...technology firms have plants, hardly felt the slump. Investors who would not touch a steel stock to buy new issues of Genentech, a Francisco-based genetic engineering or Apple Computer, the California maker of personal computers. Unemployment in Massachusetts was only 5%, or one-third less than the national level. Colorado and other Rocky Mountain prospered with the search for new domestic energy sources. Electronic and computer firms made the Southwest and West the U.S.'s most prosperous According to the 1980 census, that contains nine of the twelve fastest growing states...
...have decided that what Felt called the "serious blemish" of conviction was nearly ample punishment. Bryant, says Deputy Attorney General Charles Renfrew, "apparently felt that they had been punished and that the message had gone out that constitutional rights would be protected, even from those at the highest level...
Once upon a time, those works were below the eye level of publishers as well as buyers. They were all right in their place, but their place was the end of the book review section, the bottom of the shelf and the back of the catalogue. Today that illustrated literature has become a $200 million business whose profits are often handsome enough to compensate for deficits in the sales of adult books. Says Frank Scioscia, sales manager for junior books at Harper & Row: "The children's book business has enjoyed a consistent increase in sales, even though school funds...
...best-known books recall adult visitors almost half a century ago: "They'd say, 'You're so cute I could eat you up.' And I knew if my mother didn't hurry up with the cooking, they probably would. So, on one level at least, you could say that the Wild Things are Jewish relatives." At first those relatives were not encouraging to young Maurice. He remembers being "a miserable kid who excelled neither scholastically nor athletically." But he could draw, and he could read. When he was six, he collaborated on a book with...