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...unpredictable Socialists. It will also have to contend with the opposition of Enrico Berlinguer's still powerful Communists. As a result, Cossiga hardly is in a position to make major decisions to deal with Italy's daunting problems of 15% inflation, 7% unemployment and nearly chronic terrorism...
...Paul as though it were a mill village, and Dallas takes malicious glee in depicting Fort Worth as the sticks. South Dakotans often pretend to believe that North Dakotans are an alien race, and northern Californians regard the state's southerly part as a land of incurable kooks. Chronic twitting, in fact, may be taken as a sure sign that provincial pride is robust...
Perhaps only a sophist might be tempted to tie the spread of air conditioning to the coincidentally rising divorce rate, but every attentive realist must have noticed that even a little window unit can instigate domestic tension and chronic bickering between couples composed of one who likes it on all the time and another who does not. In fact, perhaps surprisingly, not everybody likes air conditioning. The necessarily sealed rooms or buildings make some feel claustrophobic, cut off from the real world. The rush, whir and clatter of cooling units annoys others. There are even a few eccentrics who object...
Today Blumenthal is out, Lance is under indictment and Schultze might remain incapacitated for months following major surgery. The economy, meanwhile, is plagued by chronic inflation (current annual rate: 13%), has entered a recession and is suffering from a severe energy shortage...
...million workers are totally or partly unemployed. Mexico's population (currently 67 mil lion) is growing at an annual rate of 3% and might reach some 100 million by the year 2000. For millions of Mexico's landless peasants, illiteracy, disease and malnutrition are chronic problems...