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This year the Islanders tried something new. For much of the season, they played terribly; the Islanders could not manage to climb to the .500 mark to stay until Jan. 15, three months after opening day. Their locker room, once the home of new-boys-on-the-block camaraderie, became a somber scene as players anxiously fretted over last night's mistakes. Injuries decimated the roster, most notably the loss of Potvin for 49 games. As many as 31 players shuttled through the lineup, the largest turnover since the Islanders' maiden season. For the first time...
...House budget assumes that the U.S. unemployment rate will peak at 7.5% by late 1980; other experts believe that the rate will actually climb as high as 8.5% next year. Economists estimate that a miscalculation of one percentage point in the unemployment rate would throw off the House budget figures by more than $25 billion-a loss of $20 billion in revenues and an automatic increase of $5 bil lion to $7 billion in unemployment bene fits. Conceded New York Republican Congressman Barber Conable, a member of the Budget Committee: "There is a substantial aura of make-believe about...
...perhaps there is a real chance next week for a joyful, peaceful, effective fence-cutting operation. But the image of the fence, the cop on one side and the demonstrator on the other, both scared, both angry, fighting each other, returns. Those who opt for stricter nonviolence--those who climb the fence, without helmets and gas masks, those who lie in the road and wait to be dragged away--may pay a higher price. The protesters who trek to Seabrook next week must decide if victory is worth the cost...
...jobless rate ballooned by a startling .8%, pushing unemployment to a full 7%, tossing some 825,000 workers into the street, and swelling the ranks of the nation's unemployed to 7.3 million. It was the largest rise in overall unemployment since January 1975 and the biggest climb in the jobless rate among males since 1949. Their unemployment rate leaped a full 1% during the month, to 5.9% of the labor force. The highest adult unemployment rate of all, 11.4%, was registered by nonwhite females...
Though the Administration continues to hope that overall unemployment will rise no higher than about 7.2% by year's end, a steeper climb seems inevitable. Alan Greenspan, a Republican economic consultant, foresees the jobless rate rising to about 8% this year and climbing to 8.2% by early next spring. Democratic Economist Robert Nathan anticipates that unemployment will peak early next year at 8.5% or higher...