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Helms' distaste for foreign aid is longstanding, as he bluntly told a news conference in Raleigh the day after the election: "The foreign aid program has spent an estimated $2 trillion of the American taxpayer's money, much of it going down foreign ratholes to countries that constantly oppose us in the U.N." But he has limited room to maneuver. Total U.S. largesse abroad in 1994 comes to $12.3 billion. Half of that is military aid, a backdoor subsidy for U.S. weaponsmakers that he is unlikely to gut. Actual developmental aid, the kind conservatives love to hate, comes to only...
...With the Perseus-like technology, we will be able to look in good detail" to understand the chemistry of the ozone layer, Wennberg says. "We are measuring levels that are 1 part in a trillion, and then changes that are 0.01 of 0.001 parts per trillion...
Despite the market's cool reception, the latest hike will clearly slow spending at a time when stagnating incomes have forced millions of Americans to use credit cards for everything from dental bills to trips to the supermarket. Consumers owed nearly $4 trillion at the end of the second quarter; that equaled 81% of their disposable income, the highest such ratio on record. Experts estimate that last weeks rate hike could add as much as $20 billion next year to the interest paid on everything from credit cards to mortgages. Interest charges on bank and credit cards alone could jump...
...more precisely, work throughout the $6 trillion U.S. economy is skewing more sharply than ever along educational lines. "We're getting the good jobs and the bad jobs, but the middle jobs we're losing," says David Wyss, an economist at the DRI/McGraw Hill consulting firm. "Take something like health care. It pays great if you're a doctor or a nurse, but in both cases you need a special degree. Without one, there aren't any good wage jobs in that sector. Those who aren't well educated are still flipping hamburgers at McDonald's or working as janitors...
...further decline next year would mark the first three-year string of decreases since Harry Truman. He also attacked Gingrich's "Contract With America" -- a policy blueprint the G.O.P. will press if they gain control of Congress Nov. 8 -- saying this would "explode the deficit" by adding a fresh trillion dollars of debt...