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Maybe even as a fan, although that might be pushing things. The football team enjoys a decent following, though crowds hardly ever exceed 10,000. The hockey team, with recent national successes, also draws several thousand fans...
Lenders are dangling far more than credit cards before consumers. Many banks now provide individuals with substantial lines of credit, a service once offered almost exclusively to corporations. Norwest Bank Minneapolis grants lines that typically total about $25,000 and can exceed $100,000. Norwest also offers lending programs for cars and boats that can cut monthly payments nearly in half. The loans run for several years and then come due in a lump sum. Automakers too are extending easier terms. Ford Motor Credit estimates that 45% of its 1985 lending has been for 60 months, rather than...
...whole debate over illegal immigrant labor is likely to change in the next few years because a low birthrate in the 1960s has caused a slowdown in the growth of the American labor force. Government experts forecast that the increase in job openings will exceed the growth in the number of workers in the next decade. If the projection is accurate, the U.S. will need even more immigrants to keep the economy growing...
...multiwarhead land- and sea-based missiles each side is permitted. To stay within the limit, it must either retire and disable an older 16-missile Poseidon sub or destroy at least 14 Minuteman land missiles. Hard-liners argued against taking either course; they wanted the U.S. to exceed the limit deliberately. Reagan chose a halfway measure: mothballing or converting a Poseidon rather than cutting it up as the treaty requires...
...year-old farmer on the tiny Bangladeshi island of Urirchar. "First came the dark and the menacing clouds. Soon the wind started whistling ominously. Then the heavy rains began to fall." At first Yakub thought with relief that the torrents might disperse the stifling heat, which can exceed 100 degrees F at this time of year. But the downpour quickly gained greater and still greater force. As the alarmed farmer walked out of his hut, he came upon his neighbors gathering in the night. There was frightened talk that Danger Signal No. 9, a cyclone warning calling for immediate evacuation...