Word: growth
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...Welfare" was at least one of the things wrong. It meant a morality of entitlements, people getting something for nothing. It meant the unfairness of ordinary people paying the bill for the noblesse oblige of an elite. The Great Society eventually became institutionalized, even when the nation's economic growth flattened out and the middle class began losing ground. That dissonance helped to create Ronald Reagan. Americans bought the Reagan solution: cut welfare programs, or at least slow their rate of increase, to strengthen defense and give people more to spend through tax cuts. Says Daniel Yankelovich, the public opinion...
...lose their faith in a free-market economy at the very time that the rest of the world, including even socialist countries, is looking forward to the forces of market incentives and entrepreneurship. In many respects the American economy is remarkably solid, with a respectable if not spectacular growth rate of around 3% projected for 1987 and an unemployment rate significantly lower than that in most other industrialized countries. But economic reality in America is complex and contradictory. Yesterday's boom regions, like the Southwest, are suffering while yesterday's depressed areas, like the Northeast, are booming. Thirty- one states...
...Rogaine), the Upjohn Co. preparation that has given new hope to the balding and new vigor to the company's stock. Originally marketed as a treatment for hypertension, minoxidil, in liquid form, was found by 48% of the men in an Upjohn study to produce "moderate-to- dense" hair growth if applied twice daily. Dermatologist Robert Stern, who headed an FDA advisory panel reviewing the drug, finds this a bit misleading. "Under the best circumstances," he says, perhaps 15% would see enough hair growth "to make a visible difference." His panel nonetheless recommended that the agency approve the drug, making...
MacDonald speculates that the influenza virus can injure the throat or lungs in a way that favors the growth of S. aureus. Though the complication appears to be rare, it is urgent that doctors be aware of it, says TSS Expert Bruce Dan, in an editorial that accompanied MacDonald's paper. Early recognition and treatment of the syndrome "is the most important factor in being able to prevent fatalities," says Dan. "It behooves all physicians to be on the lookout for any influenza patient whose condition suddenly worsens...
Democrats will already be at a disadvantage in 1988. The Republicans will be the incumbent party during a period of decent economic growth. Reagan will still have enough popularity to lend significant support to the GOP nominee...