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...while letting interest rates move more freely, the prime rate charged by large commercial banks has slumped to as low as 11% and rocketed to as high as 21.5%, wrecking budgets and spending plans for families and businesses alike. Though hopes for a sustained economic recovery were buoyed last autumn when rates began to fall from their 1981 peaks, the cost of money has now begun to rise again. This has angered the Reagan Administration and threatened to cut off, or reduce, the predicted spring pickup of the economy...
...that rising rates, in turn, were fueling inflationary expectations on the part of investors and businessmen and, in the process, deepening and prolonging the recession. To bolster the point, Treasury aides produced charts showing a crazily careening pattern of growth and contraction in the U.S. money supply since last autumn...
...that cultural synthesis might redeem us all. How can one follow this show, from its first choked and turbulent exercises, through the grapplings with chosen masters (Picasso, Masson, Miró, Orozco) in the "totemic" and "archetypal" paintings of the 1940s, into the air and vastness of Lavender Mist or Autumn Rhythm, without seeing that Pollock's career was one of the few great models of integrating search that our fragmented culture can offer...
...spring afternoon in Washington, John Hinckley fired his pipsqueak's .22 at Ronald Reagan for reasons meaningful only to himself; then, in the sun of St. Peter's Square, Mehmet Ali Agca, forging a new category of hatefulness, gunned down Pope John Paul II; finally, during an autumn celebration of Egypt's military might, four Islamic fanatics ran from out of the orderly pomp toward President Anwar Sadat, grenades and automatic fire flying...
...hardly surprising that some animals wander into Churchill. Like their ursine cousins in the U.S. national parks, the bears eat almost anything and have learned that where man is, there shall garbage be also. On almost any mid-autumn day, bears can be spotted foraging in Churchill's town dump. They often come closer in, to sniff around cabins and houses, even parked cars and vans, if they think there may be a snack inside. Polars vie with Kodiak bears for the title of largest land-based carnivore in the world. A full-grown male can weigh more than...