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...along with the recession, has brought down inflation far more rapidly than expected. The pace of consumer price hikes slowed from 12.4% in 1980 to 8.9% in 1981. TIME's economists forecast that inflation will cool further to 6.5% this year. The progress is partly a result of bumper grain crops and the worldwide oil glut, which have moderated food and energy prices. More important, the slump has prodded many unions, from the Teamsters to the United Auto Workers, to scale back their wage demands. Said Greenspan: "We're looking at a very significant slowing in the inflation...
Women were included in the first plans, but in the year of reconsideration five women made the Review through the existing writing competition, up from one the year before. Buoyed by that "bumper crop," women students passed word to the editors that they no longer wanted to be part of the affirmative action program. They feared it would only stigmatize those women who did make...
that night at about the same time, but no one at the carnival has heard of it yet. This is a time for play?for joyriding in the bumper cars or knocking about in the People Mover. The cool air roars with the Beatles' You're Gonna Lose That Girl. Parents force smiles going down the three-story Superslide, while their kids take the thrill in stride. Down on the field, boys kick a soccer ball in what is left of the light...
...Harvard basketball games the homey, fun-for-the-whole-family get-togethers that they are. It's one of the things that reminds the partisans to take the sport a little less than too seriously. The IAB, the ragtag Harvard band, and the pack of little kids who play bumper cars at the foot of the grandstand serve the same purpose...
...last year's varsity. To compensate for the lost manpower, coach Bob Scalise worked the booters into shape with tortuous triple sessions in early September, an experience most of the booters would like to forget. But to fill the holes from last year's lineup. Scalise looked to a bumper crop of freshmen, unquestionably the big surprise of the season...