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...housing market has begun to weaken slightly, and auto sales are not moving quite so briskly as they did last autumn. Consumer spending has also begun to slow somewhat, yet inflation, which in February hit an average annual pace of more than 15%, continues unchecked. By Administration estimates, last week's rise in imported oil costs should add another one-quarter to one-half point to the rate...
...same names that they now have on their compacts: Pontiac Phoenix, Oldsmobile Omega and Buick Skylark. The cars will be classified as 1980 models, giving them a five-month sales lead over the later-starting competitors that will come out when the model year formally begins in the autumn. Between April and September, GM aims for sales of 325,000 X cars. Company executives talk of selling 1 million of the cars by the end of 1980. (By comparison, GM sold nearly 5.4 million vehicles of all kinds last year...
Soon it was only January 6 and though the Crimson was still mathematically in the race for the playoffs, the 7-3 "home" loss to Brown that afternoon brought the icemen face to face with the grim fact that they were indeed vagabonds and that the promise of autumn would be dispatched by the reality of winter...
...Sylvia? and Signe Hammer's Daughters and Mothers, Mothers and Daughters also dwell on the maternostra theme, and still more of the genre are in the offing. Even Hollywood and television are exploiting mother-daughter tensions. Woody Allen's Interiors and Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata are based on such themes; CBS plans two dramatic specials, one of them starring Bette Davis, tentatively scheduled to be aired on Mother...
...invasion of Cambodia, which began late in December, was one such event, but gold's biggest boost lately has been the winter-long turmoil in Iran. As investors have grown fearful of another energy crunch, the price has surged from under $200 per oz. in mid-autumn to a record $254 two weeks...