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...rate of real growth will jump to 6¼%; meanwhile, the inflation rate will shrink from this year's 4.7% to 3%. If those results are achieved, the U.S. economy will expand faster next year than at any time since the mid-'60s. One bread-and-butter result, predict Heller, Grove and Eckstein, will be a reduction in the unemployment rate from the current...
...room and his words felt chilly. After a while he went to fetch some tea....And stooping, he returned carrying a small tray with two cups and a tiny plate of very thin, very dry Saiva biscuits. And I inwardly: I wish I could give him some bread and butter....I had met a great man, and Loneliness...
...published estimates range from 250 to 303 miles. Twenty roads cross the frontier at authorized transit points, marked by British and Irish customs posts. An additional 160 "unapproved" roads also cross the border; passage along them is forbidden, but they are widely used for transporting everything from guns to butter, from whisky to gelignite. On the other hand, British troops have, by their own admission, strayed accidentally across the border 30 times in the past two years...
...interests of promoting the welfare of labor, Meany has stuck to bread-and-butter issues and scoffed at the more grandiose schemes of some of his colleagues. His unabashed materialism and anti-Communism have won him many enemies on the left within the Democratic Party; Meany is so antiCommunist, in fact, that he refuses to smoke Havana cigars. Indeed, it looked for a few months last year as if Meany might lead a contingent of labor into the waiting arms of Richard Nixon. Meany and the executive council of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. had been staunchly supporting the President's policies...
...named it Ra, for the sun-god-cultural coincidence!-of Egypt, Easter Island and Polynesia. The Ra was loaded with over a ton of fresh water in authentic Egyptian jars and almost twice that weight in food. Menu samples: sheep cheese in olive oil and sello (ground almonds, honey, butter, flour and dates). Coops enclosed live chickens and a duck named Sinbad. There was also a pet monkey named Safi. With Heyerdahl sailed an oddly assorted crew of six: a Russian doctor, an Italian mountain climber, a Mexican anthropologist, an Egyptian judo champion, and Abdullah, a desert dweller from Chad...