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...Thus, to reach his goal of 4½% unemployment and create jobs for roughly 1 million unemployed people, Carter would push selective Government job programs-subsidies for companies to hire the unemployed, a plan like the old CCC to put jobless youths to work on urban clean-up and build-up projects, and the like. He argues that the programs would ultimately pay for themselves by getting people off the dole and turning them into productive taxpayers. Remembering that such schemes did not dent unemployment much during the 1960s, some of his advisers are skeptical. Still, others think they...
...thorough inspection takes into account the floor, the walls, windows and ledges, all horizontal surfaces, mirrors, sinks, showers and bathtubs, toilets and wall urinals. The faults that may be found are water spots, dry caked-on soap and grease build-up evidenced by beading water on the sides of the sink. The severity of an inspection depends on the personality of the inspector. Some are tougher than others...
...glut of inventories is severe in this recession because companies built up unusually large inventory stocks to get ahead of inflation. The rate of inventory build-up in the last three months of 1973 was un-precedented. Inventory growth in the first half of 1974 was faster than any year since...
Thus, the hopes for a Friday or Saturday night massacre (or squeaker, even), the faith that somehow, someway, Tom Sanders could continue Crimson chances, the unflagging optimism of fans, the press build-up, all of these do now seem quixotic, flying in the face of hoop history...
Most people will say it's a good thing (and I agree), but it takes some of the excitment and build-up off the classic Harvard-Cornell confrontation. It used to be a battle of the unbeaten giants in the Ivy League, in the East, and even the nation. This season the game between the Big Red and Crimson seems almost like any other division contest...