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...situation got so bad that by July the wildly-fluctuating Argentine currency (the austral) had fallen during the past year from a value of about $1.25 to roughly one-seventh of a cent. Every Monday morning, the banks were flooded with people desperately trying to change their fast-depreciating australs to U.S. dollars, the de facto national currency that is welcomed almost anywhere...
Perhaps the most remarkable--and most ironic--lottery of this shopping, period was the one held for Lit. and Arts B-71, "Jazz," which continued this semester's trend of overcrowded Literature and Arts B courses. More than 1000 students, or one-seventh of the student body, showed up for the first meeting of "Jazz," a course that was actually a departmental offering, Music 30, last year...
...also permit the threat posed by the defendant to figure in some bail decisions. On the federal level, there has been about a 36% increase in pretrial detainees since the act was passed, from a daily average of 5,383 in 1984 to 7,328 last year, or about one-seventh of those in federal lockup. "It puts a burden on us to find jail space," says Georgia U.S. Marshal Lynn Duncan...
...down in flames. Since 1981 the Barstow, Calif., company has been building radio-controlled replicas of fighter jets and selling them to U.S. military bases for target practice. Continental's remotely piloted vehicles bear the authentic markings of, say, a Soviet MiG-27 but are only one-fifth or one-seventh its size. As the RPVs fly through flak from antiaircraft guns, onboard electronic devices record the hits and near misses and send the information to a computer on the ground...
...docks can accommodate surface craft or submarines. Its supply depot is the Navy's largest, and its magazine holds 3.8 million cu. ft. of ammunition. Some 4,500 Filipino technicians keep 70 ships a month in good repair. The workers earn a typical salary of $1.80 an hour, one-seventh the amount in U.S. shipyards...