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...bipartisan spirit" of unity. It offered compassion rather than rigid ideology to those suffering from the recession, and it had soothing words for women, blacks, the elderly and others who have felt slighted by the Administration. There was even what seemed a bold cure for the dozen-digit deficit plaguing the economy: a "freeze" on the overall level of Government spending...
...that are ripped apart the following year. I think that in terms of the American public in a soft oil market, you can't expect them to make energy one of their top priorities, especially when you've got an economic recession going on, when you've got double-digit unemployment. I think that energy is going to be put on the back burner in the minds of a lot of the public...
Financial Vice President Thomas O' Brien said yesterday that faculty salaries are still "catching up" with increases in inflation from the mid 1970's. "I think we're carrying a hangover from double digit inflation," said Columbia Director of Admissions James McMenian...
Fighting to attract customers to these new accounts, S and Ls and banks are offering a bewildering array of double-digit interest rates, bonuses and prizes. The competition may threaten the survival of hundreds of small institutions that cannot afford to match the come-ons of their rivals. Says Robert Lackovic, executive vice president president of the San Francisco-based 1st Nationwide Savings: "It's going to be a real dogfight. The one thing regulation did was to produce a system in which the consumer knew he could walk in anywhere and get the same product. That...
...real world, with its double-digit unemployment and double-digit inflation rates, beckons--at least for those who have decided to pass up the detour through graduate school...