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...economy began to pick up in the latter half of 1985, buoyed by heavy consumer spending. Outstanding installment credit jumped 15%, to a record $530 billion. Shopper confidence was partly the result of good news in the job market. Unemployment inched downward from 7.3% in January to 7% in November...
HOSPITALIZED. Ezra Taft Benson, 86, politically conservative Mormon leader and former Secretary of Agriculture (1953-60) who last November became president of the 5.8 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; for evaluation; in Salt Lake City...
...eastern Siberia. Through it each spring pass 560,000 sandhill cranes, 9 million ducks and geese, more than 500 bald eagles, 104 piping plovers, 110 least terns and 96 of the world's remaining population of 171 whooping cranes. Few bird watchers are lucky enough to spot the latter along their 2,500-mile flight from the Gulf Coast of Texas to Canada's Northwest Territories. They are secretive, and they travel in small groups. But no one in the area along Nebraska's Platte River can avoid encountering the whooper's brethren, the sandhills, which tarry for weeks...
...after work frequently turns into one too many. Sometimes Owney sleeps it off overnight in the hog house, the dressing room at the construction site. This does not please his wife Dolores, who wants to study medicine but is stuck at home with a baby. Dolores is a latter-day stereotype and one that Breslin is less sure of than he is of the guys and dolls along Queens Boulevard. Still, she is vital and feisty enough to make his point about the gulf between blue-collar men and their women...
...buildup, the result may indeed be a new round of the defensive-arms race, one in which the U.S. would, at least initially, have the advantage of superior technology. Gorbachev has been pressing for an updated version of the original SALT deal: restrictions on SDI (which is a latter-day ABM system) in exchange for significant reductions in offensive weaponry, especially the most threatening Soviet systems...