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...sluggish economy will be bac news for those looking for a new job. The board believes that unemployment will rise from its current level of 7.4% to 8% by midyear before dropping back to 7.8% at the end of 1981. That will leave about 8 million people jobless for most of this year...
...often rigid emphasis on formal, elitist-oriented training. Accordingly the new school offered such courses as History of Cinema, Sexology, and Third World Economics and Politics, shocking to conservative French educators. Most revolutionary of all, Vincennes, alone among French universities, dispensed with the usual entrance requirement, the dread "bac" (baccalauréat degree), more or less the equivalent of two years of U.S. college. By admitting non-bacs and having a fluid schedule, Vincennes intended to allow workers with full-time jobs to attend the university...
...fighting, in the wooded hills and tilled valleys of a scenic region called the Viet Bac, was shrouded behind military secrecy on both sides and by a cloud cover that thwarted satellite observation. Hanoi issued regular self-serving communiques; Peking's announcements were so cryptic as to be meaningless. Said one Hong Kong observer: "It's like hearing a couple of cats squawling in the middle of the night ?they're making a helluva racket, but you don't know if they are fighting or making love." From the start of hostilities, however, it was all too obvious that...
...French-German-Spanish company that is now struggling to keep production lines open and sell enough planes to break even. No European-made passenger jets have been bought by U.S. carriers since the 1960s, when American Airlines and several other carriers took delivery of a flock of British BAC One-Elevens, and United purchased 20 French Caravelles. To win the key Eastern sale, Airbus Industrie offered the airline an in expensive lease deal to try out the planes...
...days. Lissome Saigonese women wore hip-hugging jeans and colorful ao-dais; although the P.R.G. frowns on prostitution, streetwalkers and bar girls were still hawking their charms. American pop songs blared out from the jukeboxes of cafes and bars, and the old Thieves' Market on Bac Si Calumette Street was jammed with TV sets, cameras and transistor radios tak en from abandoned American...