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...have received hefty fines for violations of federal regulations. Even so, the FAA has been slow to step up its inspections in keeping with the growth of airline fleets, according to a General Accounting Office study published in May. From 1981 until 1983 the ranks of FAA inspectors actually shrank, from about 1,750 to 1,500. But at least partly in response to the GAO's study, the FAA is carrying out plans to expand its staff of inspectors to more than 1,900 by September...
Abortion. The 7-to-2 majority upholding a woman's right to abortion in the original Roe v. Wade case of 1973 shrank to only 5-to-4 in a June 1986 ruling reaffirming that decision, with Powell in the majority both times. The deciding vote in future cases might be cast by Sandra Day O'Connor, who has indicated a willingness to countenance restrictions on abortion but not necessarily to overturn Roe entirely. Proponents of abortion rights fear the worst. Said Kate Michelman, of the National Abortion Rights Action League: "We believe the right to choose a safe...
...however, the situation had changed quite radically. The Soviet Uniion now rivalled us in nuclear weaponry, while Viet Nam revealed the limits to conventional military power. As other nations recovered from the War and started to grow rapidly, our share of world production shrank from over half to a third and ultimately to less than 25 percent. Developing countries no longer felt beholden to us, and United Nations majorities were no longer secure. Indeed, much of the talk that billowed forth from international organizations seemed intemperate, unfriendly, and at times downright irresponsible...
...trade deficit shrank against Japan in March, to $4.9 billion from $5.1 billion in the previous month...
...says a political aide, "and I don't think he felt up to it." Reagan had been through a cancer operation the year before, and his prostate trouble was on his mind. Then came Iran. Never before in his long, successful political career had he faced such trouble. He shrank from it. He dithered. His memory on little things and some big things blanked out, a sign of aging...