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...G.O.P. platform called it "the greatest domestic threat facing our nation." Curbing it has been Reagan's standout success: the annual average rate of price increases has tumbled from 13.5% in 1980 to around 5.5% this year, a reduction faster than even the President dared to predict as recently as February 1981. Many economists think that primary credit should go to the tight-money policy of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. But Fed officials freely confess they could not have carried out that policy without Reagan's support...
Hays claims that it's difficult to predict the outcome of the current campaign because Harvard will face five fine squads it has never before competed against. In addition, the aquawomen spend nearly all of February--the season's final month on the road...
...doubters spoke up quickly. Many believed that casino betting would do little more for the once flashy seaside resort than add to the squalor and corruption that had built up since the city's heyday in the 1930s and 1940s. Practically no one had the temerity to predict that gambling on the Jersey Shore would one day rival the goings-on in Las Vegas...
...neighbors. The U.S.'s G.N.P. has declined this year by about 2%, and even a modest rebound could dramatically help America's trading partners. A big push is also needed from Japan, where production is now rising at a rate of only 2.5%. TIME'S economists predict that America and Japan will pull out of their doldrums and help most Pacific nations achieve growth rates between 5% and 8% next year. Their views on some key economies...
...disability is that the disabled community comprises a very small part of the general population and that the numbers are decreasing. In fact, there are over 36 million people with disabilities in the U.S. comprising 12 to 15 percent of the population. The number is increasing and some estimates predict that 20 percent of the population will have disabilities by the year 2000. This makes sense when you look at the increased life span and the numbers of people who survive serious accidents or live longer with debilitating diseases...