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...Beryl Sprinkel, the chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, had reason to gloat a bit last week. For months he had been arguing that the U.S. economy would bounce back strongly from its poor performance during the first half of the year. Many private economists dismissed his forecast as predictable optimism from a White House cheerleader, but now it appears that Sprinkel may have been right. The Government said last week that the gross national product expanded at a 4.3% annual rate during the July-September quarter. That was far better than the 1.1% growth rate...
Cautious forecasters point out, however, that the boom machine still has a few weak spots. The oil bust, for example, has threatened the stability of energy firms and banks in the Southwest. "There are always things that can go wrong," concedes Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. "But I'd say they are minimal at the present time, and the things that can go right are pretty evident...
...Clark, 81, who worked at the National Hurricane Center from 1955 to 1990, was in charge of naming the storms until 1979. "I was running out of names, so I threw her name in there," says Clark. He also put in the names of Jeanne's children Diana and Beryl...
...trip with siblings is a big help. Those missing pieces in the puzzle that have been troubling you for years--Why did Dad carry a fire extinguisher when he went to the Boyds' to pick up Wanda for Sunday school? And your sister says, cool as can be, "Because Beryl Boyd was hopped up on vaporizers and liable to hallucinate and think that the house was burning down, and somehow a blast of liquid CO2 seemed to calm her down." And there you have it. A little more of the story...
...years old the first time Master Georgie ordered me to stand stock still and not blink...Mr. Hardy didn't have to be told to keep still because he was dead." And with no further ado, British author Beryl Bainbridge presents the first morbid snapshot in her 16th novel, Master Georgie (Carroll & Graf; 190 pages; $21), a deadpan tale of secrets and lies set in Liverpool and the Crimea in the 1840s and '50s. The story is told in alternating chapters by three characters: Myrtle, an orphan, in love with George, a doctor and amateur photographer; Pompey Jones, George...