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After ringing out 1984 with an ebullient growth spurt, the U.S. economy seems to have sobered up considerably at the start of 1985. The Commerce Department projected last week that the gross national product in the first quarter of the year will grow at a sluggish annual rate of 2.1%, less than half the 4.3% clip of the previous three months. The news about inflation, however, was less discouraging. Consumer prices rose in February at an annual rate of 4.2%, about the same moderate pace...
Fountains spurt. Birds chirp. Organ music swells. The camera pans slowly upward, revealing a white cross against an azure sky. No television director could ask for a more inspirational opening. When the blue-robed, silver-haired Rev. Robert Schuller appears, there is no doubt about it: the star has arrived. Schuller stares directly at the camera, slices the air with crisp gestures and modulates his powerful voice from a basso profundo to an ingratiating whisper. His arena, the $18 million Crystal Cathedral (two freeway exits south of Disneyland), is, with its mirrored skin and soaring see-through interior, an extension...
...still too early to determine the permanence of the metamorphosis created by Deng's reforms over the past five years, and where it will end. The only indisputable indicators are economic: an average annual increase in agricultural production of 7.9% since 1978; a spurt in rural per capita income, from $67 a year in 1978 to $155 in 1983; a 23% expansion in foreign trade last year, to a record $49.7 billion. Chinese construction is booming: nearly half the peasant housing in the countryside has been erected since...
...opposite direction. McFarlane, who would succeed Clark as National Security Adviser in October 1983, was worried that U.S. strategic-military policy was breaking down. The nuclear freeze movement was gaining ground in Congress. Negotiations in Geneva were going nowhere. McFarlane could foresee a time when the Soviets might spurt far ahead in the missile race...
After a Brown timeout, the visitors served preliminary notice of their intention to run, dashing off a 14-1 spurt and capturing the lead forever...