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...spending--that is, total federal spending except for debt service--will be zero next year." After counting increases in interest on the national debt, expenditures during fiscal 1986, which starts next Oct. 1, would rise only 1.5%, to $973.7 billion (including some off-budget outlays). That would be the smallest hike in 21 years. To achieve that goal, Reagan proposes to whack $42 billion out of what would be spent for nonmilitary purposes under existing law. He would freeze, curtail or even eliminate programs that benefit farmers, veterans, students, the sick, small businessmen, exporters and just about everybody else except...
...Statistics department, one of the University's smallest concentrations, announces a long-range expansion plan aimed at increasing the number of senior faculty members and beefing up computer facilities...
Slick-fielding second baseman Nellie Fox missed induction by the smallest margin in the history of Hall of Fame voting. Thirty eight other former players on the ballot also fell short of being named...
...range. At the same time, Commerce underscored the sharpness of the third-quarter slowdown by adjusting its estimate of that period's G.N.P. gain from 1.9% to 1.6%. The Government also reported that the November consumer price index rose at an annual rate of 2.7%, the smallest increase since June. Meanwhile, Americans' personal income rose a vigorous .7% in November, while consumer spending climbed a healthy...
...Scott's magisterial four-volume novel known as the Raj Quartet. Like E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, Scott's story circles around charges of rape and the trials, both personal and legal, that ensue. Like Forster, Scott asks how Britain, in some ways the smallest of small worlds, managed to govern India, one of the hugest and most heterogeneous of countries. But Scott's book is set about two decades later than Forster's, in the final five years of British rule. By the time Jewel opens...