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...always realize a quick increase in sales when the price comes down. Many U.S. imports, such as inexpensive radios, have little domestic competition and do not suffer a swift sales slide when prices rise. Thus, it is easy to foresee a sequence in which new currency realignments would disappoint dollar holders by not changing the basic situation quickly enough. Triffin gloomily foresees a period of "two or three dollar crises a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Away from Freedom | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

Dowling didn't disappoint them, in 1949, he directed Yale to an 8-1 recorded and an Ivy tide, Dowling won the Harvard-Yale game with some last-minute heroics tossing a 66-yard pass to tight and Del marting to squeeze by, the Crimson, 24-20, Dowling threw two TD passes that day: the other one came on a 53-yard screen pass to Clvis Hill, now with the Dallas Cowboys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dowling: Ex-Yale star Alnts for Plunketts Joo | 11/25/1972 | See Source »

Moro does not disappoint the sleepy viewers. He appears in a black bird suit, his "Ravenswear," ostensibly to plug a new film. Suddenly he is doing stunts with a severed finger, which has a history of putrefaction, that is in itself a small comic masterpiece. Moro's ultimate public outrage is a staging of his own funeral, a new high for that truly American form of expression, the synthesis of art and advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dream Ghoul | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

...Past mistakes" have made Coles leery of naive categorizations and label-prone ideologies when considering the complexity of the human mind and soul. He intends to, and does, disappoint and confuse audiences hungry for expedient clarifications, statistical analysis, and schematic theoretical conclusions...

Author: By Gwen Kinkead, | Title: Children of Crisis... ...by Robert Coles | 3/1/1972 | See Source »

...Past mistakes" have made Coles leery of naive categorizations and label-prone ideologies when considering the complexity of the human mind and soul. He intends to, and does, disappoint and confuse audiences hungry for expedient clarifications, statistical analysis, and schematic theoretical conclusions...

Author: By Gwen Kinkead, | Title: Children of Crisis.......by Robert Coles | 3/1/1972 | See Source »

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