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SPRIGGS: People forget the human capital. The G.I. Bill created much more human capital, which came home to roost in the '60s when the economy took off. The level of inequality in skills in the U.S. shrank. You had a more skilled work force, so when you dip down into the bench, you continue to have productive workers...
...WASHINGTON POST called the glass half full in its Page One story, headlined '90S BOOM HAD BROAD IMPACT; 2000 CENSUS CITES INCOME GROWTH AMONG POOR, UPPER MIDDLE CLASS. The piece noted that the proportion of households at the low end, earning less than $15,000 a year, shrank, and the Midwest and South fared especially well in the 1990s, with income rising and poverty declining more than the national average...
...Then came a turn of the ignition - April sales reports from the Big Three automakers. GM led the way with a 13 percent increase in sales. Chrysler posted a 3 percent gain. And even beleaguered Ford's report that its sales shrank by 7.4 percent for the month had a silver lining of sorts - the drop was mostly due to fallen fleet sales to rental-car agencies with post-Sept. 11 travel woes; this April's sales to actual people was as good as last year's. And besides - at least it was Ford's first single-digit decline...
...allegations came to diocese attention, the bishop, a power unto himself who often operated as if ordination gave him a share of the Pope's infallibility, acted as prosecutor, judge, sentencer. Desperate to retain even sinful men, as the number of priests shrank alarmingly, and ever putting the image of the church first, bishops refined the system. Convince the family that publicity would harm the faith. Don't report to the police; don't warn the parish. Treat the priest with confession, time out at a discreet rehab center and Christian forgiveness; then let him resume duties...
After the first couple of games, it became clear that Harvard was the superior team and the probability of an MIT victory shrank exponentially. After 31 errors in the first two games, the Crimson committed only five in the third. In the fourth, the team’s hitting percentage was an outstanding 70 percent, a model of mathematical precision...