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Well, spending does go down. It plunges to 91 in year three and then drifts upward, but even 20 years down the road it is only 93--a 7% cut in the size of government. Meanwhile, the deficit has gone from 0 to 2.8--which is the equivalent of about $56 billion--and the accumulated new national debt is about $1 trillion in real money. All in all, not disastrous. But it's a big cost for a small tax cut and an even smaller cut in spending...
...don’t know if this is a spike or and upward trend,” he said. “There’s a lot of coverage of this, and I think people are more aware...
Proofing FM has not exactly made answering that question easy.As FM proofer, you have to be the enforcer of the minutiae of Crimson form. I have probably removed upward of 1,000 serial commas from the magazine, changed a hundred “freshmen” to “first-years” and insisted dozens of times over that even if we’re talking about University President Lawrence H. Summers’ eating habits or love life, we can’t just refer to him as “Larry.” Starting...
WINGS Other inventors had discovered that curved wings reduce air pressure above and increase it below, resulting in an upward push, or lift. While most used a perfect-arc design, the Wrights put the high point of the arc nearer the leading edge. They believed this would increase the Flyer's stability by keeping the wings balanced over the center of pressure, where lift is focused, as the plane moved up and down during flight...
...announcing that it had defeated snail fever, the mollusk began returning. Last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Health, 810,000 people contracted schistosomiasis, more than double the number of cases in 1988. But experts caution that the real figure is much higher and could spiral further upward upon completion of the Three Gorges Reservoir, which might cause the snails to spread eastward. Jiang Changzao, a former official at China's largest reed plantation, which supplies pulp for paper, says that almost every reed cutter working the fields near Dongting Lake is now infected with schistosomiasis. He charges...