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...wasn't depressing enough, the government released a batch of year-end statistics last week confirming the economy's continuing dismal shape. Retail sales, which account for one-third of all U.S. economic activity, fell 0.4% in December. For all of 1991, they inched up a meager 0.7%, the smallest gain in three decades. The cutback in spending led to plant closures. Industrial output fell 0.2% last month, and shrank by 1.9% in 1991, the first yearly decline since the 1981-82 recession. One piece of good news did emerge. The weak economy managed to contain inflation. Consumer prices rose...
...newly released hostages must turn their attention to the rest of their lives. After so many years in captivity, the smallest tasks excite and bewilder. Sutherland says he washes his hands a hundred times a day. Turner says the hardest adjustment is "getting used to freedom, deciding what I'll do next." Anderson admits, "I've forgotten what it's like to have appointments, to have to be organized." History has flashed along at astonishing speed in their absence, and they must catch up. Sutherland already has a fax machine, which he must learn to operate. Both Turner and Anderson...
...money from the University," Willis said. "Our fee is by far the smallest among Ivy League schools...
...room that first year was in Child Hall. Imagine my boundless enthusiasm upon learning this was an infamous "Walter Gropius building." It was the smallest single I've ever seen--with a wooden plank instead of a box spring frame and walls so thin my next door neighbor regularly could wake me with his snoring...
...shallow depressions that dot the farm fields of North Dakota would hardly + fit most peoples' definition of wetlands. The smallest of these glacier-carved features, known as prairie potholes, are under water for only a few weeks in the spring. During periods of low rainfall, they are almost indistinguishable from any other acreage. But when the frozen ground warms in early spring, the depressions swarm with crustaceans and insects that provide migrating waterfowl with essential protein. The smaller potholes also enable breeding pairs of birds to find the privacy they covet...