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...wholesale food prices in August shot up 4.4%, the highest monthly jump in seven years. Moreover, prices are expected to keep right on going up for at least the next six months. Says Rodney Kite, director of agricultural forecasting at Evans Economics in Washington: "Food will be in the forefront of inflation the rest of this year. By December a pound of hamburger or chicken will cost 15% more than it did in June. Pork chops will be 20% higher." Otto Eckstein, president of Data Resources Inc., an economic-forecasting firm, says that by next spring prices of farm products...
Today, however, autos are in the forefront...
...system and political process. Since 1964, when a record 59% of black voters went to the polls, the turnout has steadily shrunk; in 1976, it was only 49%. "It is informed apathy," says Columbus Keepler, field services director for the Atlanta-based Voter Education Project, which was in the forefront of the Southern voter registration drives of the 1960s. "Many people voted once or twice and didn't see anything happen, so they don't vote any more." But as Carter showed in 1976, even a small black turnout can be important. He drew...
Bush, on the other hand, basically supports the existing system. "The campaign was exhausting, and it was an awful letdown," says he, "but that doesn't lead me to the conclusion that since I lost I'm going to get out into the forefront of those who think the system is all screwed up. I give Carter and Reagan credit. One for using the incumbency to demonstrate that he's hard as hell to beat. And Reagan for persistence and hanging in there for twelve years and grinding down people like...
Apparently, authorities in Seoul still do not know the answer to that question. On the one hand, students have long been expected to be in the forefront of the country's nationalistic struggle and revolutionary Western change. That is one reason they tend to be earnestly pro-American and devoted to U.S. political ideals. On the other hand, that quest for freedom, as the spreading protests of the past two weeks have demonstrated, can pose a threat to the country's stability. In the conflict being re-enacted today, says former U.S. Ambassador to Seoul Richard Sneider, "both...