Word: 1990s
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...American debt levels, while still manageable, are reaching dangerous proportions. Even if the rate of debt expansion is substantially slowed soon, the total amount of the obligations will continue to increase to even more formidable levels. The costs of making payments on the debt will increase dramatically into the 1990s, leading to a significant slowdown in improvements in the U.S. standard of living...
...launching competitors, however, will not be totally dependent on the satellite market. NASA has proposed a space station, for example, that Boeing, Martin Marietta and McDonnell Douglas are bidding to build in the early 1990s. Once operational, the station will need to be supplied by as many as 16 cargo launches a year, and private firms may get some of that business. Commercial carriers could also win Defense Department contracts to carry hardware into space as testing of Strategic Defense Initiative technology picks...
...England, the "mother church" of the worldwide Anglican Communion. On Feb. 6 the church's bishops issued a report endorsing the ordination of women. The study's purpose: to simplify the complicated and divisive process that may authorize female clergy for the Church of England by the early 1990s and to soften any disruptions in church life that such an action would cause...
...with liquid helium at a cost of $5 million a year. But the efficiency of the magnets saves Fermilab an estimated $185 million annually in electric energy costs. The superconducting super collider, a mammoth accelerator 52 miles in circumference, endorsed last month by President Reagan for completion in the 1990s at a projected cost of between $4 billion and $6 billion, will use 10,000 superconducting magnets and save nearly $600 million annually...
Though the baby bust's impact is just beginning to be felt, by the early 1990s institutions everywhere will be adjusting to the generation's smaller numbers. The change is already apparent in classrooms, where effects of population shifts are usually seen first. With a 13% drop in children ages 6 to 18 from 1975 to 1985, the number of elementary and middle schools in the U.S. declined by nearly 6,000. The typical college-age population of 18-to-24- year-olds has also begun to dwindle,from 30.1 million in 1983 to 27.8 million last year...