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...first time in a long time, Americans will be able to toast the new year with the feeling that it will bring greater prosperity and brighter prospects. With unemployment falling, incomes rising, inflation at bay and shoppers crowding into stores, the economy is entering 1984 on a roll rather than in a rut. Looking back, businessmen and consumers can celebrate 1983 as a year of rebound and turnaround. For many industries and labor unions, it was also a year of transition and turmoil that will permanently reshape the economic landscape. Serious threats to growth remain, most notably the ballooning federal...
...national moratorium. Many of them wondered how they could raise the cash to get home. Their mass spirits were as sombre as the grey sky above. Yet they remained doggedly hopeful that this new President with his New Deal would somehow solve their worries and send them away in brighter mood...
...Santa Cruz, most of the experts agreed that the starbursts, at least those emitting X rays, are distant thermonuclear explosions. In effect, nature is setting off its own H-bombs. University of California Astrophysicist Stanford Woosley, the conference chairman, said: "It is as if an object 100,000 times brighter than the sun were there one second and gone the next...
Americans take a brighter view of Reagan, the economy and the country...
Despite the difficulties, scientists have been trying to devise ways of evaluating animal intelligence. So far, none of them works perfectly. One theory holds that the bigger the brain size in proportion to the body and the more creased the cerebrum portion, the brighter the animal. But, notes Beck, "the human cerebral cortex occupies no greater a proportion in the human brain than in any other primate...