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...part-time jobs. That is true even though tuition and other expenses for a typical school year have risen to $11,700 at M.I.T. or $9,100 for nonresident students at state universities like Michigan. Scholastic Aptitude Test math scores for successful candidates at the more competitive schools hover at lofty averages: 760 and 687 out of 800 at Caltech and Rensselaer, respectively, which put those candidates in the top percentiles of all who take the tests...
...pictures were somewhat fuzzy and the hues none too bright. But no one was complaining. The images presented remarkable, virtually unprecedented views of the nearest thing to an extraterrestrial hothouse: the scorching surface of Venus, where temperatures hover around 900° F, and atmospheric pressures are 90 times as heavy as those on earth...
...spending. Recovery, though, will be painfully slow. "We may just have a long, flat bottom with very little growth," said Feldstein, adding wryly, "Only professional economists will know that the recession is over." Even by year's end, according to the board's forecast, unemployment will still hover at 8.7%. Growth in the gross national product is expected to accelerate gradually from 1.8% this year to 3.9% in 1983, a pace that would be only about half as strong as after other postwar recessions. Walter Heller, chief economic adviser to President Kennedy, warned that the economy may stall...
...Reaganomics package passed last year would stimulate the economy some time soon if given the chance to work. Though he had run on a platform of balancing the budget, the President all but ignored the projections of deficits approaching $100 billion. He scarcely noted that interest rates still hover at investment-ravaging levels. And the worst problem of all at the moment, unemployment (see cover story), prompted only a few passing words of concern. Summarized Reagan: "In the near future, the state of the union and the economy will be better, much better, if we summon the strength to continue...
...atmosphere of a San Clemente golf club locker room; golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism. It is a land of Jack Daniels and Vietnamese maids, of luxurious home sprinkler systems, of helicopters which hover over the city to catch purse snatchers making their grabs on the main streets and then disappearing into arroyos of impenetrable chaparral in the canyons...