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During the same period, average per capita income fell 33%, to about $475 annually. Unemployment and underemployment hover at about 45%, even though an estimated 750,000 Salvadorans have fled the country. Duarte's solution is to stimulate employment with public works programs and a liberal policy of lending money to small businesses...
...warms to liberal consciousness when he contrasts the rigors of sailing under Bligh with the delights of their long, languorous layover in Tahiti. Inevitably the shades of these wild, rich performances (and the fantasy of what might have been had they been combined in a single film) hover over The Bounty, which tips the balance of interest back to Bligh again but somehow manages to dim both characters into incomprehensibility...
...have climbed to an altitude of 270 miles. The higher orbit will reduce the effect of atmospheric braking and extend the satellite's lifetime until at least 1989, or possibly even into the early 1990s, when the sun again erupts. For the next eight hours, the shuttle will hover near by while ground controllers make a final check on Solar Max's performance in orbit...
...that the deficit would rise to well over $200 billion in the last half of the decade. The President studied the figures and noticed that inflation, as measured by a broad index known as the G.N.P. deflator, which includes prices paid by both businesses and consumers, was expected to hover around 5%. "Why can't we continue to make progress?" the President demanded. "We can't just declare victory...
Even though it is named for the mythic goddess of love, there is nothing very fetching about the planet Venus. It is veiled in a dense atmosphere of carbon dioxide, laced with corrosive clouds of sulfuric acid, and its surface temperatures hover around 900° F. Liquid water, if it ever existed, has long since vanished. Nothing, not even the hardiest microbes, could survive for long in this cauldron...