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...comparatively mild pace of about 5%. Between 1980 and June of this year, for example, the average weekly earnings for U.S. workers increased from $235 a week to $309. But after adjustment for inflation, including a dramatic peak at the beginning of the 1980s, that paycheck actually slid backward over those years, to $227. The rise in productivity among U.S. manufacturing industries, however, was a brisk 4% each year from 1981 to 1985. During most of the previous decade, this measure of output per worker had increased only 1.2% annually. In fact, last year's U.S. productivity hike...
...last-minute adjustment to the motor. When everything was ready, Wilbur tried to release the rope fastening the machine to the rail, but the thrust of the propellers was so great he could not get it loose and two of the men had to forcibly push the Flyer backward a few inches until the rope slipped free. Orville ran beside the machine, balancing it with one hand. In the other hand he held a stopwatch, which he started as the Flyer lifted from the rail...
...officials. Under their heavy hands, the Prague Spring of 1968 quickly gave way to sullen winter as the country became one of the most rigidly orthodox in the East bloc. Party Leader Gustav Husak, 74, installed by former Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev as Dubcek's replacement, has symbolized the backward-looking government's unimaginative face...
...utilizes two formal stages as well the seating area. While Shin's staging demonstrates creative imagination, its complexity too often distracts from the action of the play itself. The program provides a long list of instructions advising the audience when to face forward and when to turn their chairs backward in order to follow scenes...
...supernova. The importance of the event caught the imagination of the Science section staff. "It is something I never expected to see in my ( lifetime," says Sciences Editor Leon Jaroff, who conceived and edited the cover. "When you look out on a starry night, you're really looking backward in time. The light from the nearest star was emitted four years and four months ago. This explosion in the southern skies happened before our species evolved. It dramatically marks the death of a star." Adds Bjerklie: "We had been thinking of a cover story...