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...that will strengthen or weaken the nation's defenses for years to come. That excuse, however, will not last beyond fiscal 1982. By the time it presents the 1983 budget to Congress next January, the Ad ministration will have to sort out its ideas on what kind of Army, Navy and Air Force (and Rapid Deployment Force) the nation needs for the rest of the 1980s, what weapons they will wield, what kind of strategic doctrine they will be asked to carry out, what sort of manpower policy will fill the ranks, and what assistance the defense production industry needs...
...business?especially those industries, such as electronics and computers, that are expanding rapidly in a generally lackluster economy. This would both weaken the nation's global competitive position and cause inflationary shortages. Says Thurow: "You will see the wages for engineers go through the roof in Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Certain types of equipment will get very expensive." The resulting pressure, Thurow argues, could be contained only by a rate of productivity growth greater than the U.S. has experienced in 16 years (productivity actually declined in 1980). Or it would have to be paid...
...lymphocytes, making the space travelers more vulnerable to infections. (The cosmonauts found themselves spending more and more time scrubbing the spacecraft to curtail bacterial growth.) Such vital substances as sodium, potassium and calcium salts are lost from the body fluids. The muscles, no longer required to work against gravity, weaken dangerously, and at the same time bones begin to decalcify. Not until the cosmonauts step back on earth do they really experience the consequences of these changes. Then they find themselves overwhelemed by gravity. Every movement becomes a monumental labor, and their bodies seem to weigh...
...dramatize such fears, the nation's leading banks last week raised their prime lending rate to 20.5%, up 3½ percentage points in one month. Moreover, last week's report that the gross national product had surged 8.4% in the first quarter seemed to weaken the case for the economic stimulus that the Administration argues a tax cut would bring...
...could not last. He was, after all, using mirrors- often platooning eight mediocre players, for instance-to create the illusion of an infield. Certainly Oakland's starting pitchers were impressive, setting a modern record by completing 94 games in 1980. But, it was argued, the strong arms would weaken with overwork. In any event, the league was wise to the wiles of Billyball, as Martin's harumscarum tactics became known. Surely no catcher would fall for the double steal in 1981 after being burned so often last year, and of course pitchers were now alert for the attempted...