Word: 1980s
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...draining out of the system since 1975, primarily because of high unemployment and increases in benefits to keep up with inflation. In fiscal 1977 the deficit ran to $5.6 billion, v. system reserves of $46.1 billion. Without new revenues, the system was expected to go bankrupt in the early 1980s...
...contingency plans in case of war with the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact, ammunition distribution plans, NATO and Bundeswehr analyses of the Pact's strengths and weaknesses, and plans for development of a new generation of West German tanks scheduled to replace the current Leopard models in the 1980s...
...most important export commodities. At the time, the world supply of uranium exceeded demand by 400%, according to some estimates, and if newly discovered deposits in Australia had been made available to the world market, demand would have been unlikely to catch up with supply until the early 1980s. As it happened, Australia embargoed uranium exports until last August, and the Arab oil embargo of 1973 caused a huge acceleration of demand for uranium from nuclear-power plants around the world, so prices might have gone up anyway. Meanwhile, the cartel swung into operation...
...system. Benefits for the 30 million people now drawing checks from Social Security are depleting its reserves?$46.1 billion in fiscal 1977?at an accelerating rate. The deficit that year was $5.6 billion. Unless something was done, the system was expected to go broke by the early 1980s. To keep it from drowning in red ink, the House approved, by a vote of 275 to 146, legislation that would...
...educational analysts agree: the academic job market looks bleak now, and during the coming decade it will worsen considerably. Optimists estimate annual job openings will plummet from the current level of 15,000 to about 4500 during the early 1980s...