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...spending, which constitutes 6% of G.N.P. Although a fortnight ago the CIA lowered its estimate of the annual growth in Soviet military spending from about 3% a year to 2%, a substantial change and one that the Pentagon does not agree with, both agencies do agree that the slight dip in the rate of weapons production reflected in last week's report is only temporary. Explains Weinberger: "They have completed various series of weaponry and are switching over to a new series. They never stop; they have not stopped for 21 years. Whatever the precise growth rate...
...Prices dip, and the market shows who rules the oil trade
...particular hitch in the curriculum, the use of standardized tests can do nothing but good. If the scores raise what Mary Lou McGrath, director of elementary education, calls "people's level of awareness of accountability" to students, then results like the reading and writing weakness and the sixth grade dip are useful warning signals about where improvement is necessary...
...classes begin. There are lectures in obligations to parents and children, social roles of men and women and their places in the tightly knit Japanese society. There is also vigorous physical activity, team efforts to move tree trunks, for example, or cement benches. Finally comes the climax, the dip in the icy Isuzu...
...Charles' boss treats him to endless tales of a Dartmouth son--"He wants to be at Harvard, but he couldn't get in"--who is suffering from sexual maladjustment. Then there's the typist Betty, a Ted Kennedy look-alike much enamoured of Charles and salad dip recipes...