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...rate, that was an encouraging gain of 11%. Trouble was, almost half of the increase resulted from price rises. To reach the Administration's goals for the year, the rate of inflation will have to be cut sharply, but real growth will have to continue at the same brisk pace, or even slightly faster...
...Commerce Department's average of twelve leading indicators was pointing up unmistakably, signaling a big rebound in business. Feldstein knew better; his redemption rate the month before was only 60%, and the Commerce Department rebound never came. Today Feldstein sees good times ahead. His redemption rate is a brisk 75% and still rising...
With a quick swerve to the right reminiscent of Steve McQueen in "Bullit," I took the ramp at a brisk 65 mph. Suddenly it dawned on me that I was going too fast. Screech, I drove my foot down on the brakes. Lulled into a false sense of security, my two friends awoke to find the car skidding and spinning out of control between the two guard rails. After one and a quarter exciting revolutions the car came to a stop that left us straddling the ramp, and, needless to say, a bit shaken...
Even so, Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. last week warned against undue pessimism. Its reasoning: with savings so high, spending could quickly turn brisk again if there were a bunching of favorable news...
...roller-skaters careening past his car. Nowhere does Passer even suggest any side of New York other than the dank underworld and the faceless corridors roamed by George Segal--except perhaps at the very end when he walks away on a bright city street and disappears, followed by two brisk, unconcerned city slickers. He and his world have vanished without a trace...