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...after World War II. Thus by year's end the French government will control more than 90% of all banking assets (up from 60% before Mitterrand's election) and some 17% of French industry (up from 12%). Private shareholders will be compensated generously according to a complex formula based on each company's stock price, assets and profits. Total cost to the taxpayer: up to $9 billion...
...still built; America is not suddenly being driven out into hovels and Hoovervilles. But the number of Americans who can afford first-class housing is dwindling. The median price of a new home has gone from $20,000 in 1965 to $70,000 in 1981. The traditional budget formula said that a family should spend no more than one-quarter of gross income on housing. If they obey that rule, less than 10% of Americans can afford a median-priced house...
...memo board of Mike Knobler's Holworthy room bears a simple message: "The basic formula of all is: frustrated, neglected love." Chances are, it is a sentence that found expression on Friday night, the night of the Freshman Mixer...
...were not so sure. Said Frank McCulloch, executive editor of McClatchy Newspapers: "Dominance, once achieved, is very hard to overcome. The Globe is so dominant, it does not make much difference what the Herald does." Worse, Boston's new tabloid may not have very long to make the formula work. Last, week the Boston Globe reported that Herald Advertising Director Robert Lange told the paper's advertisers in July that the Hearst Corp. will give the paper just 3½ months to prove it can make it; otherwise it will be shut down. That report was followed...
Nyci's parents have been no help at all. The father began taking mock bites at the newborn calf, and had to be put in a separate pen. The mother showed no desire to feed her firstborn. Nyci downs two quarts of a formula-milk, heavy cream, casein, Lactaid and vitamins-piped daily into her stomach by keepers who have to swim out after her and pull her to the side of the pool for a feeding...