Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonder that at 8:30 a.m. Washington time last Friday, virtually every money manager and trader was intently watching a TV, a computer terminal or a wire-service ticker. When the fateful figure at last flashed across the screens, it was another shocker -- but this time a good one. The Government announced that the November deficit was $13.2 billion, a stunning 25% decline from October's record $17.6 billion shortfall and the best monthly trade showing since the $13 billion gap in April. Exports surged 9% from October, to $23.8 billion, as imports fell 6%, to $37 billion. Inflation numbers...
...mean not standing room only but single-room occupancy. In the suburbs the exhibitors moved into malls, where their "plexes" had all the charm of welfare clinics. The malls may have saved movies, bringing picture houses into bustling new neighborhoods, but the salvage job was short on pizazz. No wonder the studios, legally barred since 1948 from owning theaters, were exploiting the laissez- faire mood of the Reagan Administration to buy up theaters and get back into exhibition. The exhibitors couldn't hack...
...this hoped-for capability, many top defense experts wonder if the Seawolf truly is the right sub at the right cost at the right time. In the past, the Navy has relied on vastly superior technology to nullify the Soviets' 3-to-1 numerical advantage in submarines. But rather suddenly, the U.S. lead in submarine technology has seriously eroded. Says Admiral Carlisle Trost, Chief of Naval Operations: "The Soviets are where we thought they'd be in the mid-1990s...
...almost every reckoning, the state, if not quite Wonder bread, is at least whole wheat: overwhelmingly white and largely Protestant and middle class. Only about 2% of Iowa's 2.8 million people are black or Hispanic. The state's proportion of foreign-born residents is equally minuscule. At the Waterloo Rotary Club recently, the toastmaster told an ethnic joke -- about Norwegians from Minnesota...
...wonder if anyone will read this. If anyone does, let it be known that the murdered students were not just victims of another crazed psychopath. They were also sinners and deserved...