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...current economic recovery, which has boosted revenues through increased income and retail sales, deserves considerable credit for the rosier outlook. Just as important, however, has been a spartan regimen of tax hikes and belt-tightening. Some 38 states imposed new levies or extended temporary tax hikes during 1982 and early 1983, measures that are expected to raise some $10 billion for fiscal 1984. Fully three-quarters of the states slashed spending below the levels they had originally appropriated during the past two years. The result of these austerity measures, says David Levine, an economist with the Bureau of Economic Analysis...
Such public belt tightening has led to a new eagerness on the part of applicants for work in the private sector. "I had six or seven young men in here recently who were willing to take the jobs and salaries we were offering," said one Western banker in Bahrain (pop. 330,000). "These were people fresh out of school who in the past would have been asking for and probably getting...
...earth, IRAS identified at least five new comets and spotted a "miniplanet" only 1.2 miles in diameter, possibly the cadaver of a comet, circling within the orbit of the innermost planet, Mercury. IRAS also uncovered some bands of fine dust spread over 100 million miles in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The dust may be the debris of collisions between asteroids...
...tries to keep it close to the belt, but it's kind of obvious there is not a heck of a lot of love between Carm and the administrators," he says. Little things- like the team's shower room lacking soap early in the season have magnified and gained political overtones...
...Cruise travels from the Chicago North Shore glitz of Risky Business to the dying towns of the Appalachian Coal Belt lo play a working-class jock in All the Right Moves. Life here is picturesquely grim. Shanties that look as if they were about to implode perch uneasily on streets set at a San Francisco diagonal. The JUST MARRIED legend on the car of a young bride and groom is scrawled in Polish; Ihe not-so-happy couple plans to honeymoon in Pittsburgh. The guys al the Ampipe steel mill who have not been laid off probably wish they could...