Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through town and countryside, eluding with skill and heart the mechanized klutzes who are after them. Here, too, there are improbabilities: an effete Thoroughbred flat racer could not really move like a cow pony or return him to nature as easily as this movie suggests. But even at the end there is a neat plot twist that distracts from taking the story too literally and gives the picture a strong finishing kick...
While OPEC becomes richer, the rest of the world will grow poorer. For example, suppose oil hits $30 before the end of next year. Instead of a projected balance of payments surplus in 1980, the U.S. could wind up with a deficit of $15 billion, further weakening the dollar.* Overall, the combined balance of payments deficit for all industrial nations would climb from this year's $16 billion to perhaps as much as $40 billion in 1980. Developing nations would be hurt worst, since many of them have no exports of real value to count on at all. Their...
...Fewer and fewer people are related to jobs that they can identify with," says he. "They see no connection between what they do on the job and what comes out at the end." They spend their lives isolated behind typewriters and computer consoles. Gyllenhammar worries that company chiefs expect the industrial Indians to be machinelike. "If they die little by little every year, nobody cares very much." But millions of workers are becoming fed up, he believes, and the frustrations are rising equally in Europe, Japan and North America...
...just why, and how much, Chicago's schools had gone into the hole, by week's end nobody could tell. Current deficit estimates still began at Joe Hannon's original $43 million. But tallies of total indebtedness to bondholders and others ran as high as $700 million. There was plenty of blame for everyone, though. Hannon; the mayor, who should have seen the problem coming; and the school board's finance committee, which did not even meet between January 1978 and March 1979, owing to "personality conflict," as one member recalls. Why did the board fail...
...application of the law and the Constitution to complex moral and social questions like abortion, obscenity, busing, the death penalty. The notion that such issues can be considered solely in terms of abstract and impersonal principle is, of course, a myth. Inevitably there are times when the Justices end up voting their own convictions. "Result oriented" jurisprudence such as this has been criticized for years. But a Justice has to persuade his colleagues to produce a five-man majority; votes change and compromises are struck as individual opinions are exposed to the often withering scrutiny of the whole court...