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...same time, this display of fiscal firmness is failing to impress its intended audience. The program's goal is to prove to the business world that Carter is man enough to grit his teeth and make the helpless bite the bullet--thereby reversing self-fulfilling inflationary expectations. But the consensus on Wall Street is that not enough old people will freeze, too few children will go hungry and, in short, stricter discipline is necessary...
...first minute of play. From then on, however, the game and the crowd belonged to Cornell, as David Chiappini, Jeff Baikie and Dan Miele all tallied to even the score and Roy Kerling deposited the game-winner behind Providence net minder Scott Fiske on a power play bullet...
...reports that Karmal's Vice President, Sultan Ali Kishtmand, had perhaps died in Moscow, where he was supposedly flown for medical treatment following a Shootout among members of the Revolutionary Council. Another rumor, that Karmal's own younger brother and adviser Mahmoud Baryalai, had also died of bullet wounds, was squelched only after he popped up on Soviet television with assurances that "I am alive and well...
...package." Said he: "Gradualism is not the answer when you have such a deeply embedded inflationary psychology." But officials abroad remain skeptical. Concluded a top official in the West German Economics Ministry: "They know what they have to do in Washington. But they're afraid to bite the bullet...
...effect of a man being electrocuted while descending on a roller coaster. Once or twice his ski tips flipped up anarchically for a nanosecond in the direction of his nose. With his strong, gyroscopic instincts, Stock disciplined those little apocalypses and hurtled on, his body tucked into a bullet, a jaunty and maniacal capsule rocketing down the mountainside...