Word: deficits
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...Gannett policy urges editors and reporters to include minorities in stories in which their race, sex or ethnic background are unrelated. For example, quoting a black professor in a story about Black History Month does not qualify, but citing a black economist in a story about the budget deficit does. "Mainstreaming," explains Overby, "is affirmative action in the news columns...
...Economist Michael Boskin, 43, of Stanford University, who proposed Bush's "flexible freeze" approach to cutting the federal budget deficit, was picked to chair the Council of Economic Advisers...
...restoration of the quake-stricken region will drain money from an economy already reeling from a series of setbacks. The cleanup costs for the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster swallowed 8 billion rubles, about $12.8 billion. This year the Soviet budget is already expected to run a 36 billion-ruble deficit. The government has also suffered falling revenues from declining international oil prices and from its campaign to crack down on vodka consumption. Now the country faces a sizable loss of income from Armenia, important for its manufacture of technical and electronic equipment...
...high school, and of those who graduate, 1 out of every 4 has the equivalent of an eighth-grade education. How will they write, or even read, complicated production memos for robotized assembly lines? How will they be able to fill backlogged service orders? Already the skills deficit has cost businesses and taxpayers $20 billion in lost wages, profits and productivity. For the first time in American history, employers face a proficiency gap in the work force so great that it threatens the well-being of hundreds of U.S. companies...
...American investors could count on: death, taxes and a profit at AT&T. Now they are back to two. For the first time since 1877, when Alexander Graham Bell founded what was then called the Bell Telephone Co., the telecommunications empire will post a loss for the year. The deficit, which could run as high as $1.7 billion, will be the result of AT&T's decision last week to scrap $5.6 billion worth of outdated equipment. In a drive to modernize, the company is replacing 2 billion miles of telephone connections with higher-capacity fiber-optic lines...