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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostilities in Nicaragua might send a tidal wave of contra refugees crashing across the border. Costa Rican officials believe that in the event of peace, the peasant soldiers in their country would return to Nicaragua, with only the former National Guardsmen of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle and upper-class Nicaraguans choosing to remain abroad. Honduran officials are less sanguine. As it is, they must cope with some 150,000 Nicaraguan refugees. They fear that most of the roughly 12,000 contras would want to set up shop in Honduras, perhaps even refusing to be disarmed...
...spring nears in early September, the chlorine is warmed by the sun and converted into a reactive form that can destroy ozone. The presence of fluorine in the atmosphere supports the view that these chlorine compounds are of man-made origin. "There isn't any fluorine in the upper atmosphere from any natural source," says Farmer. This suggests that the source of the accompanying chlorine is chlorofluorocarbons...
...Koch, New York City's voluble mayor, recently recounted how he had toured Manhattan in the company of some mental health experts. Concerned about the mentally ill who live on the streets, Hizzoner had decided to do some sidewalk research. On the tony Upper East Side, the group encountered a bedraggled, incoherent woman lying in the street, having thoroughly soiled herself. The woman could not be forcibly committed to a mental health institution, said the experts, because she did not present an "imminent danger." Koch was stunned, and recalled thinking, "You're loony yourself...
...combative but haughty campaign. (One columnist, in a wicked play on her name, dubbed her "Elite Bouffant.") She has taken a leave from her real estate business to campaign for her husband, but insists that she will not "merely be a dutiful wife." Within the confines of Delaware's upper class, the two-career du Ponts are rebels...
...birthrates of the '60s and early '70s is already being felt by employers who try to hire youths for entry-level jobs. Columbia University Professor David Lewin predicts that as the birth dearth works through the ranks of the labor force, "employees are going to have the upper hand in bargaining power." Job insecurity will subside, he thinks, and workers will win higher wages, lowering the pressure to put in more hours...