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...economy as a whole. Both would be growing at 7%, just as with a family whose income goes up a bit each year and therefore feels it can afford to take on a little more debt. Except that in the case of the U.S. economy, still the largest in the world, taking on an extra 7% in debt amounts to taking on an additional $175 billion...
...community gardeners wants to grow corn up there. In all, it is an engineer's multiple-use fantasy, 28 acres big. The Japanese pioneered this kind of architecture, building their own tea garden and baseball diamond on top of a treatment plant. But this will almost certainly be the largest such structure in the world, says Joseph Coppola of New York City's Richard Dattner Architects, the project's design firm. One day soon every slurp of a West Side drain will bring residents a bit closer to what officials have already named Riverbank State Park...
PRETORIA, South Africa--Four Black activists, three of them leaders of the country's largest anti-apartheid group, were convicted of treason yesterday. They could face the death penalty...
...Time & Life Building in New York City, was broadcast live over the C-SPAN network last Thursday evening. Though the show was genuine, the election was not: the ballots were cast by more than 3 million students and their parents around the country and abroad in the largest voter-education project ever, sponsored principally by TIME...
Ever since it practically invented the idea more than a century ago, Sears has seen a big sale as a sure cure for slow business. Even by the standards of the largest U.S. retailer, last week's offering in Chicago was its most stupendous yet. Chairman Edward Brennan served as the star pitchman. "It's a trophy," hawked Brennan, 54, a cherubic former Sears salesman. "It's an excellent facility, very well maintained; nothing of its size and value has ever been sold before. After all, it is the tallest building in the world...