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...also more than the 7.25% revaluation carried out by market forces in the four weeks since the mark was cut loose from its old peg. Schiller called the new rate "the golden mean-courageous but not foolhardy." It was clearly a compromise. Schiller wanted a change large enough to anticipate a continuing higher inflation rate outside Germany, but German industrialists argued for a lower figure. By making German exports more expensive and foreign countries' exports more competitive, the change should reduce Germany's huge export surplus. That will help currencies like the French franc and the British pound...
...double up or triple up in cramped apartments if they hope to pay the rent. The latest trend in New England is for married couples to get together in pairs and lease a house. Quite a few young marrieds are forced to postpone having children because they cannot afford enough space for larger families. To avoid the problem of searching for a reasonably priced place in which to live, company executives sometimes resist transfers to different cities...
...methods. U.S. communities operate under at least 8,300 different building codes; the provisions often conflict, making it impossible to standardize such items as the type of wiring, piping and plumbing. This not only inhibits architects and engineers from developing cost-cutting innovations (for lack of a big enough market), but often prevents builders from reaping the economies of standardized plans and production. Few other big industrial countries permit such a senseless riot of diversity. Code uniformity has helped Western Europe to pass the U.S. in making use of new technology, including precast concrete panels and high-precision assembly systems...
...intense, perhaps because her creatures move in a society held rigid by theology where diabolism is as real as rock-a milieu not merely strange but very nearly incomprehensible to a mind formed in the 20th century. A modern student can read the documents-the witch-burners were articulate enough-but statistics and dry records are unlikely to convey to him any idea of the atmosphere that hangs for days, according to the author, in a town square after a witch has been burned. Is the smell, for instance, reassuring, since it signifies that evil has been expunged...
After a 15-year effort, the Armenian American community has raised enough money to endow the new Armenian professorships at Harvard. a chair at U.C.L.A., and a full-time program at Columbia...