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...fared badly in terms of new industrial investment per capita; only Luxembourg and Britain rank lower. As a result, the U.S. may already, in fact, have become enmeshed in an intolerable economic dilemma in which the nation's private employers no longer create enough new jobs to absorb young workers coming into the labor force...
...their shoulders and netted the fat catfish, bass and bream that were swimming around. Later, Carter and other amateur cooks dredged the fish in corn meal, deep fried the catch over open coals for 15 minutes in boiling peanut oil (of course), piled it into brown paper bags to absorb the fat and then dished it up with hush puppies, coleslaw and home-grown tomatoes...
...lander to bring it out of orbit and into a descent path. Some 150 miles from the surface, traveling at more than 10,000 m.p.h., Viking will encounter the outer fringes of the Martian atmosphere and be slowed by aerodynamic drag (the aeroshell will act as a shield to absorb frictional heat...
...stage was thus set for the most critical election Italy has faced in 30 years, one that would not only absorb 35 million Italian voters but also be closely watched throughout Europe and in much of the rest of the world as well. The same issues that toppled Moro-the weakened lira, rising inflation, unemployment and scandal-will be refought in the campaign. But the overwhelming issue facing the country is quite clear: Whether Italian voters, with their country's traditional center-left politics at a point of impasse, are prepared finally to allow the Communists to share national...
...road race crowd, then, is composed to a large extent of doctors, lawyers, engineers and other professionals better able to absorb the high costs involved. "It's a kind of Walter Mitty-type thing, but in a fairly affluent crowd," Yerkes explained before the race...