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...sparks of their personal friction, Rabin and Peres have no significant ideological or policy differences. Both advocate tough budget cutting and tight foreign currency control to fight Israel's punishing triple-digit inflation. On matters of foreign policy, both want to maintain close relations with the U.S. and honor the Camp David agreements. Rabin and Peres subscribe to the "Jordanian" option, under which most of the occupied West Bank would revert to joint Jordanian-Palestinian control...
...these departmental hardships combined with a projected Faculty budget deficit of $785,000 for the current year foreshadow future double-digit tuition hikes. "Unfortunately, I don't see too many positives on the horizon," Gerrity said...
...Four-digit fever has swept Wall Street periodically since Dec. 31, 1976, when the Dow Jones average of 30 leading industrial stocks last cracked the 1,000-point level. But rarely had an assault on the magic barrier been more furious-or inconclusive-than the trading melee that last week nudged the Dow briefly, and by the barest fraction, into quadruple digits...
...fact, for investors to make up for the loss in buying power caused by inflation, stock prices would have to climb far higher than they have. Since 1965, when the Dow first approached the four-digit threshold, inflation has chopped the buying power of a dollar to little more than 400. For investors in the 30 stocks of the Dow industrials to be as well off today as 15 years ago, the averages would have to hover not at 1,000 but at 2,500-and not even Wall Street's most starry-eyed optimists see that kind...
...Crimson there were flashes of brilliance--the game leading 20-point, ten-rebound performance by 6-ft. 1-in. center Elaine Holpuch; the double-digit outputs by point guard Nancy Boutilier and freshman forward Janet Judge; and the two impressive second-half comebacks. But there were also the mistakes--mistakes that forced the cagers to play a game of desperate, catch-up basketball...