Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...change of heart and next year appropriates funds* for a manned trip to Mars. If that approval were given, NASA's dreamer planners would not be unprepared. They have already spelled out in detail a daring program that could land Americans on the Red Planet by the mid-1980s...
...five Persian Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Iraq and Abu Dhabi to buy an immediate 20% interest in foreign oil-producing operations in their lands. Most important, the pact calls for the five states to get a 51 % share of ownership in time, perhaps by the early 1980s...
...current rate, Z.P.G. is still some 70 years off-and it may never come at all. One factor in the delay is that so many girls were born during the baby boom that the number of females in the prime childbearing ages will go on climbing until the early 1980s...
...1980s a "spiritually oriented age will replace the present materialistically oriented...
From 1975 on, also, the amount of earnings on which Social Security taxes are levied will go up every year in line with the general rise of wages in the economy. The taxable wage base could easily reach $ 15,000 by 1978, and $20,000 sometime in the 1980s. Over the years, this change could drastically shift the impact of Social Security taxes, which in the past have hit hardest at low-paid workers. Unless Congress changes the law, taxes on people earning $12,000 a year or less will not go up at all after 1974, but many people...