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...most sanguine about the state of the nation, a majority of all demographic groups shared the upbeat mood. Even 53% of those making less than $ 10,000 agreed that things are going very or fairly well. The sunny outlook seems to reflect the current health of the economy: the lowest level of optimism during Reagan's term, 35%, came at the end of the last recession, in December...
...outlined procedures to follow whenever a part of the ship sprung a leak, developed a fire or otherwise broke down. The other was an extract of "casualty reports," detailing equipment problems experienced by a class of amphibious assault ships. Arthur's lawyers argued that the documents carried the lowest security classification, "confidential," and were of little value to the enemy. But Captain Edward Sheafer Jr., a senior intelligence officer in the U.S. Atlantic Command, identified the Blue Ridge as the key communications vessel for the Atlantic fleet and called the damage-control book "a bible for sabotage...
Guidelines on girth have been the subject of a growing dispute since 1983, when the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. updated its charts on desirable weight. The poundage associated with the lowest death rates, the insurance firm found, had risen by as much as 14 Ibs. over such weights in its 1959 tables. Now Dr. Reubin Andres, clinical director of the Gerontology Research Center of the National Institute on Aging, has added more fat to the fire. Using the same data (from 4.2 million people charted by 25 insurance companies over two decades), Andres has concluded that people in their...
...many ways, Nyerere managed to improve the lot of his people. He instilled a sense of national pride among the country's diverse tribal groups, and promoted Ki-swahili as the national language, factors that have contributed to Tanzania's having what is perhaps the lowest level of tribal strife of any country on the continent. In addition, Tanzania's 83% literacy rate is among the highest in Africa, health care has been improved, and the government has demonstrated concern for human rights...
...lucky fluke. The Department of Labor last week announced that consumer prices rose a mere .2% in September, the same rate as for the past four months. Largely because of declining food and energy prices, inflation is now running at an annual pace of just 2.3%, its lowest level since...