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...this year as the U.S. economy starts to grow with renewed vigor. Government figures released last week showed that the gross national product expanded at a 3.2% annual rate in the first quarter of 1986, nearly five times as fast as in the last quarter of 1985. The sharp pickup in growth may prove to be quirky, but it got an additional boost late in the week when the Federal Reserve Board cut its discount rate, which is the interest charged on loans to member banks, from 7% to 6.5%, its lowest level in eight years...
...brilliance of his productions and for his odds-defying, inspirational leadership, but to most of the theatergoing public he is unknown. He chose, in the early stages of a promising career, to abandon commercial theater for the then nascent regional repertory movement. Says he: "I always hated the pickup quality of commercial theater, where the only permanent people were the managers and the accountants. I thought the theater should be built around the artists, and I always looked to find my sense of family there." In Providence, Hall gathered an ensemble whose members remained season after season. Their loyalty proved...
...stakes cat-and-mouse game at the Tijuana-San Ysidro border crossing, an inspection station that handles 27,000 vehicles a day. On one recent afternoon, a raggedly dressed vendor carrying a load of serapes could be seen watching the inspectors and tipping off the Mexican driver of a pickup truck to work his way over to lane 7, where a weary Customs officer was waving most cars through without a check. At the same time, another supposed vendor worked the other side, scrutinizing the vehicles for the Customs agents and whispering into a miniature radio when he spotted...
TIME's economists predicted that the gross national product, after adjustment for inflation, will rise 2.9% next year. Even that modest pickup may be enough to cause a slight drop in the unemployment rate. Board members estimate that in 1986 the rate of joblessness will fall to 6.8% from today's 7% level. The current rate represents a marked decline from the November 1982 peak...
...devastation was total. Only a twisted 20-ft. section of the plane's fuselage remained intact. The stricken craft left trees burning and strewn like pickup sticks in its wake. The DC-8's debris and the soldiers' personal effects were scattered in all directions. A boot remained upright. A knife hung from a web belt. A stuffed bear lay in the snow. Two tiny dresses meant for a trooper's daughter somehow escaped the flames...