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...entirely adequate, way by which productivity is measured?rose on average about 3% a year, a healthy pace that had been maintained since shortly after World War II. In the '70s, productivity growth has averaged only about half that. Some economists long hoped that the slowdown was a cyclical fluke, caused mainly by the recessions of 1970 and 1973-75 (recessions always hurt productivity because companies run high-powered machinery at a slow pace and keep on the payroll workers who do not have much to do). But the annual report of the Council of Economic Advisers, submitted to Jimmy...
Police also believe that an employee may have tipped off the robbers to Lufthansa's treasure. Apparently it was there by a fluke. The money was scheduled to be transferred from Kennedy into Manhattan on the Friday before the heist, but when a Brink's truck arrived to take the money to Chase Manhattan, the Lufthansa foreman was too busy directing another shipment to open the vault. Some investigators think that there may have been a conspiracy to keep the money at the facility over the weekend...
Yale's ruggers, winners of last spring's Ivy tournament, carried an unblemished league slate into Saturday's match and were considered the favorites. Harvard possessed an unbeaten Ivy record of its own, and the Crimson proved that it was no fluke, overcoming a 7-6 halftime deficit to defeat the Elis...
Then came the Dartmouth win; Weird Incident Number Two at Princeton when sure victory evaporated with a fluke fumble...
...against his own misanthropic image. And so out in Montauk, where Perry's people are readying the boats for a winter season of dark surf and sharp winds and streaming silver fish too small to catch, the mood is light despite the weather. In early November, after all, the fluke start running, and it looks like a good season...