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Moving at a 34 strokes-per-minute clip, the women in black picked up nearly a seat a stroke following the settle, and by the 300-meter mark they owned a lead of just under a length. By the halfway mark the lead grew to a full length, where it held steady until the closing sprint...
...then voice grave worry about Carter's economic management in the next. Says John P. Thompson, chairman of Southland Corp., an operator and franchiser of convenience food stores that has its headquarters in Dallas: "I think 1978 will be a good year. It is starting off at a higher clip than 1977." Simultaneously, he grouses: "I think the business community to a man reflects the uncertainty he [Carter] has projected...
...material over foam and onto the frame. The staple gun can also be used for insulating walls; indeed, it is almost possible to build a house with one of these $30 widgets, points out Zakas, who is writing a book on the uses of this successor to the paper clip: it is tentatively titled Staple! Staple...
...lowest productivity and most antiquated industrial plant and equipment of any major European state. A tax cut could well make British customers demand more goods and services than the country can produce, leading to a rash of domestic price increases and sucking in imports at an inflationary clip...
Does a 4% unemployment goal make sense? Though the economy has been generating new jobs at a fairly brisk clip-some 200,000 a month, bringing total employment to an alltime high-the jobless rate has been stuck at about 7% since April. The statistics say that today, 6.9 million Americans are looking for work, a number usually associated with deep recession rather than steady growth. But the scary overall figures mask conditions that are both better and worse than they seem. On the plus side, the unemployment rate for all whites is 6.1%. Among white adult males the rate...