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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the campaign, Reagan repeatedly predicted that growth in production and incomes would raise federal revenues enough to shrink deficits painlessly. Figures released last week, however, made it clear that right now the exact opposite is happening. The Government recalculated the third-quarter increase in the gross national product, or total output of goods and services, at a mere 1.9%, vs. 7.1 % in the previous three months. It reported a 7.3% drop in after-tax corporate profits during the third quarter. Moreover, October reports disclosed a slight but unexpected decline in consumer spending, and much bigger falloffs in housing starts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plunging into the Red Ink | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...only trademarked, but Tamiliar, too, discarding in him Wilson, co-owner of Harvard Elite's Sales of Georgia. Who distributes the product manufactured by the Wisconsin company. "It's a well-known name in the held of by-pass filtration." Wilson says...

Author: By Charles E. Cohen, | Title: They Call Themselves Harvard | 11/29/1984 | See Source »

...obstacles are so great that other options may have to be weighed. The Treasury study is also expected to give the President the pros and cons of both a national sales tax and a value-added tax (similar to a sales tax but levied at each stage of a product's development and distribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drawing the Lines on Tax Reform | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...IMPORTANT HEALTH WARNING TO WOMEN USING AN I.U.D., proclaim the austere but imposing ads currently appearing in newspapers and magazines. The $4 million media blitz by the pharmaceutical maker A.H. Robins of Richmond represents one of the most extensive product-warning campaigns in history. The company is attempting to alert women in the U.S. who are still using the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth control device. Produced from 1970 to 1974, the I.U.D.s have been blamed for thousands of cases of severe pelvic infections, sterility and other maladies. By last week at least 400 women had followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recalls: Words of Warning About an I.U.D. | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

Sure, she's got connections--she's Superman's cousin and the product of his producers. Yes, she's experienced from her inaugural battle with the over the evil witch Selena (Faye Dunaway) and her corny cohorts. But, by Krypton, is she boring...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Call Off the Celluloid | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

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