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Practically before you could say "F. Scott Fitzgerald," Princeton led, 1-0. Maybe the Tigers' upset win over Brown the previous week had not been a fluke...
Appel also called John Hammond at Columbia. The call was Springsteen's idea, but the come-on was all Appel. He told Hammond he wanted him to listen to his new boy because Hammond had discovered Bob Dylan, and "we wanna see if that was just a fluke, or if you really have ears." Hammond reacted to Springsteen "with a force I'd felt maybe three times in my life." Less than 24 hours after the first meeting, contracts were signed...
There was little cheering over last month's report that the unemployment rate had finally dropped, from 9.2% in May to 8.6% in June. The Government labeled the decline a fluke, distorted by imprecise measurements of the number of students entering the job market; experts unanimously predicted a new climb in joblessness during July. Instead, the Labor Department reported last week that the July rate dropped further, to 8.4%, and this time it said that the figure was as exact as statistical techniques can make it. Surprised Administration economists still think the rate might go up again in August...
...most powerful capitalist economy, is recovering from its recent debilitating bout of inflationary recession and faces a particularly uncertain economic future. Production is beginning to rebound. Officially, the unemployment rate fell from 9.2% in May to 8.6% in June. But that was a statistical fluke, reflecting the imprecision of the Government's methods in measuring the number of students entering the job market for the summer. Thus the jobless rate could well go up again in the months ahead. Most experts expect the rate to stay above 8% for at least another year and not dip below 7% until...
Republicans Beryl Sprinkel and Murray Weidenbaum insist that more fiscal and monetary stimuli would pep up the recovery only at the price of re-igniting inflation. The rate of consumer price increases has dropped from 12% in 1974 to 3.7% in March; that may have been a fluke, but Eckstein expects it to average 4% to 6% for all of 1976. Sprinkel, however, is concerned that a stepped-up recovery would send inflation up again in 1977, forcing the Goveminent to crack down on demand; that would cause production to fall and unemployment to rise once more...