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...Soviets have little use for their own currency is the shortage of consumer goods to buy. The result is that thegoods have become the storehouse of value rather than the money, as in hyperinflationary economies. A leading Soviet economic official told a visiting American that his neighbor had a seven-year supply of detergent in his tiny apartment...
...seven-year U.S. economic boom has produced great rewards, but they have not been distributed equitably. In a report issued last week, the Census Bureau found that the gap between rich and poor is widening. On the basis of a survey of 58,000 households, the bureau estimated that the poorest one-fifth of U.S. families received 4.6% of total income -- the lowest percentage since 1954. By contrast, the wealthiest one-fifth of families accounted for 44% of the income -- the highest share ever recorded...
...were confident that more effective AIDS drugs would soon supplant AZT. As a result, the Government invoked the Orphan Drug Act, a law passed in 1983 to give pharmaceuticals makers financial incentives to develop treatments for rare diseases. The law allowed the Government to give Burroughs Wellcome an exclusive seven-year license, to commence when AZT reached the market...
...nation's worst unsolved serial-murder case, a seven-year manhunt has finally produced a suspect: a 38-year-old former law student with a mysterious past...
Armenians hold memorials on April 24 because the seven-year genocide began on that date in 1915, said Dork H. Alahydoian '89, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Armenian Club. He said the massacres eventually left nearly three-quarters of his people dead...