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...housing starts, job layoffs, business failures, new orders of durable goods, construction contracts and stock prices. But these indicators proved wrong in 1962, leading economists into a false recession scare. Often, such warning signals also come too late for the Government and businessmen to have a chance to cushion the fall, or perhaps avert it entirely. Figures on industrial production and personal income, for example, only confirm what has already happened...
...Blow. Chagall designed the menu for the opening banquet; Miró designed scarves and handed them out to the ladies. Maeght's granddaughters presented the keys to the museum-the first public foundation of its kind in France-to Culture Minister André Malraux on a red satin cushion...
...cumulative effect of this, states the report, was to give merchants "an extra 40 days of business potential during the year, with more than three-quarters of a million more using downtown spaces." > Revenue from the meters had been $257,000 during their last twelve months of operation. To cushion this loss of income, the city council raised overtime parking fines from $1 to $2. The time limit per space was set at two hours. Revenue from parking tickets dropped $18,000, and the overall loss to the city...
...that the activities in San Giovanni Rotondo would bear an investigation. Pope John sent an emissary, Msgr. Carlo Maccari, to the busy shrine with directions to set things in order. Maccari saw plenty that needed to be set in order. He saw the dread Spiritual Daughters squabbling over a cushion on which the padre had knelt, finally tearing it to bits. He saw other women following the padre about, armed with scissors to snip off pieces of his cassock. When he discovered that bandages dipped in chicken blood were being sold as having come from Padre Pio's wounds...
After 10:05 had elapsed, the Crimson was sitting comfortably on a 24-10 cushion. Their lead caromed between 10 and 15 points during the rest of the half, and Harvard took a 44-31 margin into the dressing room...