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...spite of your unfactual article, the Lear Fan will become not only a technological marvel but a commercial one as well-thanks to the foresight of my father, the dedication of my stepmother Moya, and especially the 275 buyers who have provided a backlog of orders totaling $350 million for what you have mistakenly called a "commercial misfit...
Mexico's population continues to grow at a rate of 2.5% per year in spite of efforts to reduce it. Demographers estimate that the population will reach more than 100 million by the turn of the century. Even if economic growth were to return to its precrisis rate, the country would be hard pressed to produce enough new jobs just to absorb the 800,000 youths who join the labor force every year...
Reagan saved the harassed legislators one headache by bowing to near unanimous advice from Republican congressional leaders that his proposal to shift the final 10% installment of his three-year income tax cut from next July to January had no chance of passage. In spite of that retreat, the President showed that he retains plenty of backstage clout. His friend and close Senate ally, Nevada's Paul Laxalt, led a successful drive to remove Oregon Senator Bob Packwood from chairmanship of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Packwood played a major role in helping engineer the reelection of every Republican...
...spite of all its efforts, Washington, ironically enough, may be backing the wrong contras. "They are making the biggest possible mistake," observed a leading opposition figure of the Sandinistas in Managua. "The Nicaraguan people are first anti-Somocista, and only secondly anti-Communist." It is commonly believed that for the contras to succeed, a considerable number of Sandinista soldiers would have to enlist in the cause. One of the few men who could make that happen is Eden Pastora Gómez, 46, a popular hero of the Sandinista revolution who grew disenchanted with the revolution and fled Nicaragua...
...spite of continuing controversy over Nestle's general marketing policies in the Third World, the company's removal of the infant formula cleared the way for return of its products to North House...