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Though higher interest rates are bound to crimp housing, pinch installment loans, and put a drag on sales of big-ticket items like cars, which are normally bought on credit and not with cash, most economists continue to agree that the economy is not about to drop into a free-fall plunge as it did after the oil-price shocks of 1973 and 1974. For the most part, the members of TIME'S Board of Economists predict a moderately deeper recession than envisioned in their earlier forecasts of September; but they foresee no economic tailspin, in part because the strength...
...disregard the combined overall record of 1-6-1 the teams drag on to the field. Disregard the fact that Dartmouth's offense has been putting up doughnuts on the scoreboard faster than a Dutch bake shop...
...chocolate chip cookies and some souvlaki, with a big finish at Durgin Park and maybe a half-gallon of beer. Zimmer's face looks like an aging Vegas stripper's silicone-sagging buttocks. He's already cost the club a fortune, what with bolstering the dugout bench and increased drag on the team bus, and he's not exactly defraying the expenses with World Series checks. And look what he's done to the country: House Speaker Tip O'Neill said he was "hahtbroken, just hahtbroken" when the Sox lost against the Yankees last year. No one knows how long...
...lecture on Friday. This, after all, was a democracy. To my astonishment, half the class raised raised its hand. This half of the class was in essence saying that it would prefer for 30 to 40 per cent of the class to miss a lecture completely, rather than drag themselves to a lecture at noon on Friday. I found that display a disgusting and utter lack of consideration...
...They had to drag me off," he joked. "I didn't want to stop...