Word: auge
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TIME is to be commended for its coverage of "The Population Curse" [WORLD, Aug. 6]. Our solutions to all other world problems will fail if too many people are allowed to overcrowd the globe...
...years I have never seen anything to compare with the opening ceremony of these Games [OLYMPICS, Aug. 6]. The occasion was unsurpassed in spirit, execution and excellence...
These are the findings of a nationwide poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White. Some 1,000 voters were questioned by telephone between Aug. 7 and Aug. 9, a time when the Democrats were dominating the TV screens and headlines as they launched their campaign in the glow of a successful convention. Yet 45% of the respondents would vote for the Republican ticket of President Reagan and Vice President George Bush if the election were held now, vs. only 31% for the Democratic nominees, Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro.* Some 24% were undecided, a number that could be crucial...
Despite the excitement, market watchers were divided on how long the party would last. In the past their predictions have gone wide of the mark. A bull market began almost exactly two years ago on Friday, Aug. 13, when the Dow Jones stood at 776.92. The Dow went upward for ten months, until the middle of 1983, and forecasters confidently predicted it would reach 1400 or 1500. Instead, it then began drifting sideways. This year, while many money managers expected the market to pick up steam again, it sank instead. The price of an average share of stock...
This is the way almost every day begins for Richard Nixon, now 71, the 37th President of the U.S. and the only one who demonstrably violated the law and resigned in disgrace. Since Nixon is a methodical man, his days pass in much the same way, and so, Thursday, Aug. 9, will probably be much like any other. But there must come a moment when Nixon remembers that this was the day, ten years ago, when he gave up the power and the glory that he had fought for all his life...