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America's trade balance has deteriorated badly on both sides of the ledger. Between 1981 and 1984, exports fell 7% while imports surged 25%. Last year the U.S. had a record-shattering trade deficit of $123 billion. The rush to import takes profits away from U.S. companies and paychecks from American workers. The impact must be measured not only by layoffs and closed plants but by factories not built and expansions not made. C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics in Washington, estimates that by 1986 the U.S. will have lost 3 million jobs in industries that...
...other side of the propaganda ledger, the Sandinistas' well-publicized elections last month impressed few foreign nations as a genuine return to democracy; many opposition groups boycotted the vote, and others complained that they were not allowed to campaign freely...
Visions of extravaganzas dancing in their heads and likely tugging at their ledger books, the Shuberts rewrote large portions of the music, inflated the cast tremendously, and lumped in additional songs by other composers. Weighted down by such commercial dross, the show closed after one season and might be remembered now as nothing more than a Trivial Pursuit stumper were it not for the efforts of Paul Lazarus. Working closely with the Porter estate, director Lazarus reconstructed the show from the original manuscript, returning "You Never Know" to its original "chamber musical" conception for the 1982-83 Dorset Theatre Festival...
Then one day the ledger told the moderns the inevitable, and the farm went up for sale...
...sure, much of the public-domain software is amateurish or trivial-for example, programs that imitate birdcalls or beep out the William Tell Overture. But there are free, first-rate programs that enable machines to edit documents or keep electronic ledger books for home businesses. Software abounds for such games as chess and blackjack. One program called A.T.C. simulates the challenge of being an air-traffic controller...