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Clearly, leaving college can turn into a purposeless drift through trivial jobs and futile distractions. The specter of a dropout's destroying himself on heroin haunts many a parent (though the prevalence of drugs on campus makes life in academe less reassuring than it used...
Obviously, international migrations are not a likely prospect, but even within any one nation, crowding is generally a result of the drift from rural areas to the city. Taken as a whole, the U.S. still has only 58 people per sq. mi.-scarcely one-sixth the density of Switzerland, which does not seem terribly crowded. But about 70% of all Americans have jammed together onto 2% of the land, while half of the nation's counties lost population during the past decade...
Banzer's regime-backed by an odd marriage of left-and right-wing parties-is expected to reverse the anti-U.S. drift of the Torres government, which expelled the Peace Corps and nationalized several U.S. mining companies. Whether Banzer can achieve the elusive goal of political stability for Bolivia remains questionable...
...failed." Brian did manage to phone down to Tyler as he sat in the backyard with Carl. "I'm sorry I couldn't make it down, but I just got to sleep," Brian explained. "Let me talk a while on the phone before I drift off again . . . What'm I doing? Getting back into arranging, doing that more than writing right now . . . I'm really excited about Surf's Up-as a single-it has a very virile sound . . . Well . . . um . . . I'm drifting off again . . ." Click. Whatever Brian does, Surf...
...Drifting Downward. U.S. Administration officials saw the Japanese decision to set the yen adrift among the world's currencies as a tangible sign that the Nixon moves are succeeding-but they emphasized that it was no more than a first step. European reaction to the Japanese announcement, which came within hours of the close of business Friday, was a mixture of surprise and bewilderment. In West Germany the dollar had not declined in early trading. But as the week progressed, rumors began to circulate that the International Monetary Fund, the clearinghouse established at Bretton Woods in 1944, would eventually...