Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...results. Among the first breakthroughs were Venera 9 and 10, projects started by Sagdeyev's predecessor, Georgi Petrov. In 1975 the two probes transmitted the first photographs of Venus' hellish surface. Imagers on the next two probes failed, but Nos. 13 and 14 sent back color photos plus a wealth of information on atmospheric, surface and subsurface chemistry. Then in 1983 came a pair of missions that stunned Western space scientists. Venera 15 and 16, in Venus' orbit, transmitted high-resolution radar maps of the planet's surface. The maps, says former NASA Administrator Beggs, "indicated a level of radar...
...distribution of income has tended to wind up unevenly slanted toward the rich. In 1929 1% of U.S. families held 36.3% of the wealth; the proportion fell as low as 20.8% in 1949 but rose back to 34.3% by 1983, Economist Batra notes in The Great Depression of 1990. That disparity is dangerous, he contends, because banks with idle money are tempted to make shaky loans to financially strapped customers, while the rich tend to make increasingly risky investments in search of ever larger returns...
...some undetermined point, the public will start to feel more than a little edgy. Says Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management: "For the U.S., it happens when our debts seem to be unreasonable to the rest of the world relative to our wealth, when we start looking like Brazil." At that point, some unexpected event could trigger a panic. Says Rohatyn: "The cause is utterly unpredictable. Some trading company in Hong Kong will go belly-up, or perhaps a bank in Luxembourg...
Improve "the quality of life" by devoting moreresources to problems of the environment, healthcare, substance abuse, illiteracy, and themaldistribution of wealth...
Yohe also knows how to spread around the wealth of his passes. In the Columbia crush, seven Harvard players--including tight end Kent Lucas, who made four receptions for 77 yards--caught passes...