Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...price for this series of distractions will be paid on Capitol Hill, where the unresolved legislative agenda is a minefield of potential trouble. Reagan has threatened to veto appropriations bills emerging from Congress that exceed the spending limitations agreed upon in the anemic deficit- reduction package passed by Congress in early August. As many as 13 spending bills, including costly farmsubsidy legislation, could reach Reagan's desk. If the legislators were to override his veto on any of them, it would be the first such defeat of his presidency, further eroding his influence. Still, he seems ready to take...
...median age of the population reached 30.9, the oldest ever, and is expected to exceed 36 by the year 2000. People who fox-trotted to Tommy Dorsey now outnumber those who hip-hop to Cyndi Lauper; for the first time in history, there are more Americans over 65 than there are teenagers. Notes Karl Zinsmeister, an economic demographer at the American Enterprise Institute: "By the late 1980s, one-half of our households will be headed by baby boomers. One-fourth of our population will be elderly. These two groups will define our society for a very long time...
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...