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Though the computers are programmed to look for anything statistically suspicious, the shortage of staff has meant a continuing decline in the number of audits. Even among those who earn more than $50,000, a group normally audited most heavily, the rate has shrunk from 12.13% to 5.68% since...
...survey last December. In the same period, the percentage of Americans who think that "things are going fairly well or very well in the country" has jumped from 35% to 45%. Similarly, while 62% last December felt that "the country is in deep and serious trouble," that majority has shrunk a bit, to 58%. The state of the nation is rated good by only one-third of Americans, but that nevertheless is a step up from the 27% who felt that way in December. More specifically, 49% believe that "our economy has started to improve...
...Yankelovich, Skelly & White.* Since October, the poll shows, the percentage of Americans who believe the Reagan defense budget could be cut without jeopardizing U.S. security has fallen from 66% to 56%. While 71% in October thought the U.S. had "enough nuclear weapons to protect ourselves," this satisfied majority has shrunk to 59%. As to the nuclear-freeze movement, only 32% of Americans now see it as a genuine grass-roots drive (a decline from 38% last June), while 54% think it "mostly involves people who often have been involved in protest movements in the past...
During the past six years, the Army has spent about $50 million in an attempt to tidy up the area. An accelerated evaporation process has shrunk the murky green liquid in one lagoon from 200 million gal. to 55 million gal. The water, however, is still so polluted it occasionally kills birds. To scare them off, the Army in 1976 put flashing lights on barges and ringed the lake with Zong guns, which make siren and gunshot noises. It also built a giant barricade of bentonite slurry, 6,700 ft. long with a foundation 35 ft. deep, to help purify...
...that the decline of the middle-roading Free Democrats could produce a growing polarization within the country. Others question whether the German penchant for dynamic leadership, after 13 years of Brandt and Schmidt, can be satisfied by the unassertive Kohl. At a time when a protracted global recession has shrunk hopes for a return to the country's enviable prosperity, West Germans must also confront the unknown parameters of a new political era. -By William Drozdiak. Reported by Roland Flamini/Bonn...