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Despite the spreading upswing, however, Western Europe continues to suffer from high unemployment. The jobless rate is expected to remain at 10% in 1984 and decline next year by a mere half a percentage point. Michael Emerson, Chief Forecaster for the Commission of the European Communities and a guest at last week's meeting, noted that Europe's "non-performance" in creating new jobs was becoming dramatic. Emerson said that the rigidity of the European labor market, where unions are strong enough to make layoffs extremely difficult, have raised real wage costs over the past ten years...
...Emerson Junior High in Dayton, Bombeck started writing a humor column for a school newspaper called The Owl. Says Bill Bombeck: "The format hasn't changed a lot. You're talking about someone who has been writing a personal column since she was twelve or 13 years old." Bombeck had been fairly offhanded about singing and dancing, but wising off in print was the best thing since soaping windows at Halloween. A couple of years later she was at it again, clowning about shoplifting, clearance sales and the lunch menu for the newsletter of Rike's department...
CALIFORNIA. The Golden State's trendy, anti-Establishment voters would seem made to order for New Celebrity Hart. Says Hart Chairman John Emerson: "California is a place that has grown on the idea of opportunity and the future, and that's what Hart is all about." But that is not what the polls show. Mervin Field's California Poll in early May had Mondale ahead 41% to 39%; a later poll by Steven Teichner for television station KABC in Los Angeles showed Hart leading 29% to 27%, with a stunning 34% undecided. The conclusion many observers...
...winning entry in the Harvard-Radcliffe Architecture and Design Group's Environmental Art Contest, the two-foot-high birds spent the day at Sever Quad, the lawn between Sever, Robinson and Emerson Halls...
Watching 250 people pack Emerson Hall on a warm Thursday evening for the poetry reading he has organized, Haviaras feels a mixture of nervous excitement and dread--dread that there will not be enough room for the crods who have come to hear James Merrill and Seamus Heaney read...