Word: rapides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason for the decline in job-related ailments in the past 15 years has been the rapid growth of employment in service industries compared with manufacturing jobs. In 1972, 26% of the nonagricultural work force was employed in manufacturing; that proportion is now down to 19%. But even office workers face health-related uncertainties, particularly in the age of widespread computerization. Some employees who sit in front of video-display terminals all day complain of neck and shoulder soreness and eye-strain; they may also worry about possible long-term effects on their sight. More and more companies are mandating...
When the hearts were restarted with an electrical jolt and blood, warmed in the bypass machines, was recirculated, doctors faced another complication: massive bleeding in each infant's brain. Overall, the surgery consumed 60 pints of blood products, dozens of times the babies' normal volume. Worried about rapid swelling of the brain tissue, the team decided to wait for a later date to install titanium plates custom designed to help close the babies' skulls. In addition, there was not enough scalp to cover both infants' heads; Benjamin's was therefore temporarily closed with surgical mesh...
...will turn out to be a smoke screen for an all-out program to deploy SDI. As Roald Sagdeyev, director of Moscow's Space Research Institute, told TIME, "We need some kind of insurance policy on SDI; otherwise, what is advertised innocently as a testing program could lead to rapid deployment of a full-scale system. Unrestrained SDI testing would confront our military planners with the requirement of more offensive systems, not less. It's that simple...
...million, the highest price ever paid for a Manhattan skyscraper. The British, who burned Washington in 1814, have now built or bought an estimated $1 billion in District of Columbia property, including part ownership of the famed Watergate complex. Esteemed U.S. corporate nameplates are also changing citizenship at a rapid clip. Doubleday books has gone to the West Germans, Brooks Brothers clothiers to the Canadians, Smith + & Wesson handguns to the British, Chesebrough-Pond's consumer products to a Dutch-British combine. General Electric television sets have been bought by the French, Carnation foods by the Swiss, General tires...
...even faster than it has so far. A weaker dollar would make American exports cheaper and imports more expensive -- and that would make the U.S. better able to repay its debts. But America's major creditors, who are also its major trading partners, are not wild about a further rapid slide in the dollar's value: such a precipitate decline would erode the trade surpluses that made them creditors in the first place. They are better served if the U.S. continues to consume foreign goods while increasing its foreign debt, albeit at a reduced rate. Thus the potential for further...