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...nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts that unless Congress acts to narrow it, the budget gap will widen steadily, reaching $263 billion in 1989. By that time, the national debt would hit $2.5 trillion. The annual interest bill on that debt, says the CBO, could amount to $214 billion and absorb 16% of all Government spending, up from...
...Wales. New industries have not stepped into replace old ones and areas of desolation abound, Perhaps Scargill would be less militant about pit closings if he felt assured that jobs at new mines could be found for those layed off, or that other sectors of the economy could absorb them without too much community disruption and disintegration...
Central American nations rely on the U.S. to absorb much of their overflow population through legal and illegal immigration. If our Government continues to oblige these countries, our standard of living will be reduced and a new poverty-stricken underclass will come into being. Central America will not begin serious birth control programs until it knows that expansion to the north will be limited...
Astronomers have identified fiery quasars and the wispy shadows of supernova explosions at the very edges of the known universe. Yet the core of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, has long been an elusive stranger. Thick clouds of interstellar dust and gas absorb most of the light from the galaxy's central bulge long before it reaches planet earth, a small and distant suburb 30,000 light-years away from the Milky Way's midsection...
...provisions, including employer sanctions. Like other citizens, these respondents apparently view the tide of illegal immigration, rightly or wrongly, as a threat to both the jobs and wages available to legal residents. Also like other citizens, many of them worry about the capacity of the U.S. to absorb, economically and socially, an uncontrolled flow of aliens. Says Congressman Green: "The bill is not a cureall, but it's better than what we have now." -By George J. Church. Reported by Carolyn Lesh and Neil MacNeil/Washington, with other bureaus