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...term stagnation of their earnings. The median income of U.S. families has virtually stood still since 1973, rising from $24,345 in inflation-adjusted dollars to $25,830 last year. That marks an annual gain of just 0.3% a year. From 1959 to 1973, by contrast, incomes grew a robust 2.7% a year...
Amazing but true: the region surrounding this city in southern France, whose robust cuisine embraces foie gras, fatty duck, preserved goose, chewy red wines and Armagnac brandy, has the lowest rate of heart disease in the entire country. And the French as a nation, despite their substantial lunches and dinners (wine included), are only one-third as likely to die of heart attacks as Americans...
Dole's cancer was detected early and that greatly improved his chances for recovery, according to the statement. In addition, Dole was described as having a "robust physical condition...
...when the U.S. was sinking into the quagmire of Vietnam, Robert McNamara resigned as Secretary of Defense and became president of the World Bank. Having retreated from the war against communism, he threw himself into the struggle against another enemy, which has turned out to be more robust and insidious: human misery so extreme and extensive that it can spread across borders in the form of marauding armies or refugees fleeing hunger and chaos...
...left behind structural burdens that are likely to rob the U.S. of robust growth for several years. Among them: record federal deficits (the past fiscal year: $285 billion) and an orgy of overbuilding that has sent the commercial real estate industry into an out-and-out depression. The glut of empty office towers could take a decade or more to pare down. Beset by the | speculative hangover, the economy has expanded just 2.6% from 1989 through mid-1991. Economists predict that the economy will bump along at a sluggish pace of less than 3% a year through...