Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of American families living below the poverty line, currently an annual income of $12,091 for a family of four, fell last year to 13.1% of the population, from 13.4% in 1987. But that percentage is still higher than it was a decade ago, when it stood at 11.4%. In addition, earnings for full-time male workers fell 1.3% in 1988, the first decline since 1982, while wages for female workers were unchanged...
...foot tales. Perhaps dog-bites-dog is a better label. Like many Washington-based agents for large news organizations, I am mentioned in other publications now and then. Our work is parsed by press critics; we get into contretemps with the powerful; we serve as filler for the growing number of gossip columns. All this is, in principle, legitimate. Those who groan reflexively when needled or critiqued simply confirm the aphorism about journalistic skins being thinner than the average American adult's. What stokes my personal I.L. is the frequency of error in these items. The venerable practice of checking...
...then, early estimates of as many as 250 fatalities had begun to look far too high. Only 34 bodies had been extracted from the rubble as of Saturday, , and officials theorized that the freeway death toll might not exceed 85, still a catastrophic number...
...opportunities in hardware have come and gone. It's too risky at the moment. It's an industry that's maturing." Adds Sematech's Noyce: "Nobody's going to be very interested when the last people in it got stung." According to Venture Economics, a market-research firm, the number of computer-hardware makers receiving venture financing fell from 397 in 1984 to 215 last year, and software start-ups getting such funding dropped from...
...member of the Interregional Group A&F, which was founded by Starkov in 1978. It has grown to the astonishing circulation of 26 million, specializes in service features and has published other reader polls. It has thrived on controversy in the past, publishing glasnost-enlightened statistics on the number of Stalin's victims and the country's budget deficit, as well as admiring profiles of Western millionaires. But a poll that gave top ratings to Gorbachev's leading critics clearly had tested, and broken, glasnost's boundaries. It was hardly the type / of news Gorbachev and other leaders wanted...