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...ballet. But Mary (not her real name) also has something that casts a shadow over her otherwise happy life. She is figuratively carrying a time bomb in her neck, never knowing whether-or when-it will go off. As an infant in Milwaukee, she received X-ray treatments to shrink her thymus gland, which doctors suspected was causing breathing problems. As a result of that medical vogue, she must now live with the knowledge that she is at least 20 times more likely than the average person to develop cancer of the thyroid, which is normally among the rarest...
Colleges also expect to be hit hard as the baby-bust generation of the late '60s and early '70s begins to turn 18 in the 1980s. For economic and other reasons, enrollments have already started to shrink, but the situation will get worse in the years to come. John Silber, president of Boston University, predicts that some 200 smaller colleges, accommodating an average of 5,000 students each, will have to close, and many larger institutions will become academic ghost towns. Anticipating the coming pinch, the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts has cut three buildings...
What about the armed forces? The pool of 18-to 19-year-old men will shrink from its present 4.1 million to 3.5 million by late 1984, reducing the number of those available for military service. The Defense Department has already increased the number of opportunities for women...
...week and regaled his colleagues with an off-key rendition of After You've Gone. The performance was a bittersweet joke, for members of New York's Typographical Union No. 6 were voting, with white marbles or black, on an innovative eleven-year contract that will radically shrink one of the nation's oldest and most powerful craft union locals. The white marbles outnumbered the black by an overwhelming 1,009 to 41, thus giving the New York Times and the Daily News the right to fully automate their production systems. In return, the 1,400 regular...
...have already lost 75% of the 235 million bu. of corn they expected. Many farmers are holding tight to whatever grain they have, and a lack of feed for Nebraska's record 7.5 million head of cattle is hurting ranchers. In all, Nebraska's farm income could shrink by $2 billion this year. Losses for Iowa and Kansas are conservatively estimated at $3 billion...