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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needs to be ready for the worst-case scenario, in which all the safety nets might be tested at once. That would put daunting pressure on the Government if its deficits remain high, because declining tax receipts and rising welfare payments would push the budget gap out of sight. Each additional percentage point of unemployment in the U.S. would balloon the deficit by an estimated $40 billion a year, a spectacle that might erode public confidence even further...
...cameraman was later injured when a bolt struck the tower. In New Orleans, Suarez and Jarecke had to lug 50 lbs. of camera equipment more than two miles in 90 degrees-plus heat from the press buses to a security checkpoint. "Despite all the problems," says Halstead, "the sight of hundreds of thousands of people gathered together is still a photographer's dream. Even smaller events, like seeing the Pope in a classroom in Los Angeles answering children's questions, those are the moments we live...
...even office workers face health-related uncertainties, particularly in the age of widespread computerization. Some employees who sit in front of video-display terminals all day complain of neck and shoulder soreness and eye-strain; they may also worry about possible long-term effects on their sight. More and more companies are mandating regular breaks for VDT workers and paying for periodic eye examinations...
...branches reach up to the windows of the Reagan bedroom. Lyndon Johnson's Quercus phellos has leaped from 15 ft. to 50 ft. in 13 years. Just like the man who planted it, the willow oak seems determined to be bigger and better than anything else within sight. Dwight Eisenhower's Quercus palustris is already 75 ft. tall and shows no sign of slowing down; pin oaks are devils in competition. Jimmy Carter's youngster, Acer rubrum, is a red maple that is putting on two to three feet each year...
...declared, "One of the freedoms, the major freedom, of our kind of society is the freedom to choose to have a public morality." Bork's supporters say that turnaround shows his willingness to evolve philosophically. Opponents say it is the intellectual expediency of a man more provoked by the sight of obscene words than by signs reading WHITES ONLY...