Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...board, which costs between $250 and $350, is only the start. Next come the wildly colored drawstring trunks, the boldly patterned shirts, beach cruisers (bicycles with balloon tires and wide seats ( priced at $125 or so) and Zinka, multicolored zinc oxide applied like war paint. Those of drinking age reach for Corona beer, a favorite Mexican brew at Hussong's Cantina, a surfing hangout in Baja California. Noting the influence of the bar on surf culture, Moctezuma Imports, which markets Corona, has introduced a new brand called Hussong...
...harboring the thriving towns of Newport Beach (pop. 67,000), Costa Mesa (88,000) and Irvine (89,000). It includes a constellation of some 700 high-tech firms -- making Orange the U.S.'s fifth largest high-tech complex. Its economic output, according to Economist James Doti, is expected to reach about $50 billion this year, vs. $13.5 billion in 1975. The county's economy has grown twice as fast as the nation's in the 1980s. Last year alone, some 50,000 new jobs were created...
Maybe so, but questionable farm subsidies are swelling the already bloated federal budget. U.S. spending on agricultural price and income supports, which totaled $17.8 billion in fiscal 1985, is expected to reach a new high of $35 billion this year. "It's ridiculous," says New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman, who co-sponsored the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction bill last year...
...reasons philosophical and fiscal, the President is not rushing to throw federal dollars at the drug crisis. He does not want to inflate the federal deficit, which could reach a record $230 billion this year, by creating new and costly Government programs. Reagan would prefer that many of the solutions -- and most of the funding -- come from state and local officials and the private sector...
...record becomes all the more impressive when one realizes that the eight regulars have been having fairly average years. Since when does Jim Rice have fewer than a dozen homers a month after the All-Star break? Since when does Bill Buckner struggle to reach the .250 plateau? Since when does any team win with shortstops named Rey Quinones and Ed Romero...