Word: soaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DEFICIT. Will soar to $208 billion in fiscal 1983, nearly double last year's record, $110.7 billion. For fiscal 1984 the deficit would drop to between $188 billion and $189 billion; by Reagan's figuring, that would be $42 billion less than if Congress enacted no changes in spending and tax programs. But in fiscal 1985 the deficit would rise by $5 billion, to $194 billion, largely because tax collections, held down by the final stages of Reagan's 1981 cuts, will not rise fast enough to match increases in spending...
...similar success in another obscure corner of Asia: the interior of Irian Jaya (formerly Dutch New Guinea and now part of Indonesia). Dillinger, 51, and wife Lorraine, 48, work among Dani tribesmen cut off from the outside world by crocodile-infested, malarial lowlands and mountain ranges that soar to 13,000 ft. It is against Indonesian law to convert any person who already has a religion, and 88% of the country is Muslim. But the government does allow Christian missionary work, Minister for Religious Affairs Haji Alamajah Ratuprawiranegara acknowledged to TIME, "as long as it is only aimed...
...camps, "I was savage in an inferno where Eichmann's reality eclipsed Dante's vision of hell. I reacted with the nervous system in a frenzy to hang on. Harvard marked a redemption. Here the mind began to soar and the struggle for moral and intellectual survival began. It was a struggle that begin in Australia at the age of 18, after I hadn't been in a classroom for six years...
...BUDDY EV'S UNCLE BREWSTER is going to soar in the Space Shuttle less than a year from...
That issue, without question, is the ocean of red ink. The Office of Management and Budget has compiled figures indicating that without further cuts in spending or increases in taxes, the deficit might soar to $175 billion in fiscal 1984 and $220 billion in fiscal 1989. Deficits of anything close to that scale would force enough Government borrowing to kick up interest rates again, cutting short a recovery or preventing it from ever getting started, unless the Federal Reserve poured out enough new money to risk firing up inflation once more...