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...recently as the 1970s, the shortfall generally stayed at about that level. But unless something is done, deficits are now bound to total about 5% of the G.N.R until 1990. Interest on the national debt ($149.5 billion this year) is already the third largest single budget item after defense and Social Security...
Sigrid C. Gabler '85, the petition's author, said yesterday she decided to take action on the muffin shortage after the coveted item was omitted from a breakfast earlier this month...
...black market in Siberia; tapes of Michael Jackson and the Police go for $54 in Moscow. Teen-agers are so fond of Adidas sneakers that a new Russian adjective has been coined: adidasovsky, meaning "terrific." A trendy girl is described as firmennaya, from firma, meaning an item with a Western brand name...
...tell the Macintosh what to do, one moves the pointer on the screen by sliding the mouse across the desk. Once the pointer reaches the desired item on the display, a click of the button on the mouse sets the machine in motion...
Neither group made any commitments, and no date was set for new talks. All the players were afraid of championing any deficit-cutting steps that might conceivably prove to be political liabilities in the coming campaign. The only thing agreed upon was that Social Security, the biggest nondefense budget item, was off limits. Observed Democratic Congressman Leon Panetta of California: "There's a helluva lot of political paranoia that's in the way of getting something done...