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As Paul Krugman points out, gross domestic product growth has been remarkably consistent over the past couple of decades, at about 2.3 percent a year, despite dramatic reversals in economic policy.
Alvin Holmes, a 24-year statehouse veteran who has been trying to overturn the ban for decades.
It probably has some association with social and moral changes which, over the last few decades, have brought increasingly churlish and irresponsible attitudes.
Both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times lead with yesterday's revelation that a special House committee's secret report concludes that over the past two decades American companies have transferred significant amounts of military technology to China, thereby damaging U.S. national security.
Yet they remind us that the number of children killed by guns skyrocketed in the '80s and while tailing off in the '90s remains far higher than in decades past.