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Such a shallow recession will have differing impacts on various areas of the economy. The downturn is not expected, for example, to affect employment seriously. The jobless rate is projected to climb from its present level of 7.5% to a peak of 8.2% in 1981's second quarter, before slipping back to 8% at year's end. The public, however, can expect little relief on prices next year. From a 1980 inflation rate of 13%, the board of economists projected that the increase in consumer prices will only slow to 11.4% at best...
...year of gyrating prices was felt acutely by investors. The Dow Jones industrial average hit a low of 759.13 on April 21, but then began a long climb that turned into the so-called Reagan rally after...
...impact of the Bali decision on energy-consuming countries will be serious. West Germany's oil bill will climb $3 billion from this year's $30 billion, and Japan figures that it will be paying out another $5 billion on top of 1980's $60 billion. In the U.S. the oil tab will also rise by $5 billion, to perhaps as high as $100 billion. Higher crude prices will quicken the pace of inflation in all Western countries. Washington experts predicted that in the U.S. the OPEC decision would boost the cost of gasoline at the pump...
...bank is not all that John Gabriel has destroyed. He jilted the only woman he loved, Gunhild's twin sister Ella Rentheim (Irene Worth) in order to climb the ladder of success. Dying of an unnamed malady, Ella returns to claim the Borkman's son Erhart (Freddie Lehne), whom she had reared during Borkman's disgrace. Gunhild wants him to redress the family honor. In a bitter confrontation scene, the two sisters drink from the cup oof the past as if it were vitriol...
...category which covers the costs of the House system and freshman dormitories. Martha G. Coburn, associate dean of the College, said at the CHUL meeting that rapidly escalating energy costs forced Department officials to include a $300,000-plus deficit in their fiscal 1981 budget--a deficit that may climb as high as $650,000 by next June if inflation rates stay high...