Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only 5.3% of G.N.P. by 1980. Since then it has increased to 6.5% of G.N.P. Fourth, there has been a sharp decline in income taxes as a share of G.N.P. and a rapid rise in the payroll taxes used to finance Social Security and Medicare. While payroll taxes rose from 2.1% of G.N.P. in 1960 to 5.7% in 1984, all other taxes fell from 16.4% of G.N.P...
...ordered the Bank of England to boost its prime lending rate from 10.5% to 12%, forcing corporate rates and home mortgages even higher. The new interest rates halted the fall of the pound by attracting new foreign capital into the country. During the rest of the week, the pound rose slightly and closed on Friday in New York...
American consumers have a direct stake in the unfolding farm debate. By setting price levels for farm produce, Government programs have prevented wide swings in food costs. Ending supports could result in more erratic fluctuations. Food prices rose a moderate 4% last year, a bit less than the consumer price index, and they are expected to show another mild gain in 1985. Americans spend only about 11% of their disposable income on at-home dining, the lowest amount for any major nation...
...after midnight under a full moon, small-arms fire began to crackle around the Kampuchean refugee camp and guerrilla base known as Ampil, hard by the border with Thailand. The shooting eventually died away, only to be replaced, just after sunrise, by a thunderous artillery barrage. Plumes of smoke rose from the dusty thatch-and- bamboo compound as heavy Vietnamese guns poured thousands of rounds into the area--"a huge rumbling," as one witness described it, "an explosion not every minute but every second." A dozen Soviet-built T-54 tanks and nearly two dozen armored personnel carriers added...
King, who was slain in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, would have been 56 years old yesterday. In the 1960s Jackson rose quickly to become one of King's top lieutenants in the civil rights movement. Jackson was in Memphis with King when he was shot. The flamboyant Jackson claims he was the last person to speak to King before he died, though others who were in Memphis have disputed this...