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...million houses and apartments a year, but it is defying the long established principle that housing is always hit hardest when interest rates climb. Says Brill: "The old rules no longer hold. Housing is no longer the first area of the economy to boom or the first to bust...
...World War II, 70 representatives of ten Arab countries gathered in Oslo last week to discuss their favorite topic: oil. The news that came out of their three-day conference was about as chilly as the city's 50ºF. weather. The Arabs not only wanted to bust the two-year freeze on oil prices with a substantial increase in 1979, they also called for a plan under which oil prices would continue to rise in step with the cost of other raw materials...
...just as Dan Rather, Morley Safer and Mike Wallace do for adults. With slightly less success-at least from the looks of last Saturday's first 30 Minutes, which included rather pedestrian film reports on acne treatment and the plight of a justifiably obscure rock band trying to bust onto the charts. Things may pick up a bit, though. The next scheduled offering, for example, includes a harrowing look at juvenile offenders trying to survive in an adult maximum-security prison and a zany profile of the mostly middle-aged men who put out Mad magazine. Future subjects sound...
...development there has been a tragic and costly neglect of Iranian culture. "We have stressed the material aspects of life," he says, "and have lost our cultural identity." Adds Amir Taheri, 38, editor in chief of Kayhan, Iran's largest daily (circ. 700,000): "What does this Westernize-or-bust program give us? Western banks, Western guns, Western secret police, Western buildings. They are supposed to solve our problems. But do they? I don't think so. We need to get to our own culture and then use what can be integrated from the West...
...ownership of much of their crude reserves. Some governments talked aggressively of also muscling in on the companies' "downstream" refining and marketing operations. In the consuming countries, meanwhile, the Sisters faced painful marketing adjustments brought on by high prices and, in the U.S., a strong congressional drive to bust the oil majors into many smaller pieces. Worst of all, the companies seemed trapped in an over-the-hill business: all sorts of "experts" were saying that world oil production would peak as soon as the early 1980s, then start on an irreversible decline...