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...lowest monthly increase since December; housing starts jumped to an annual rate of more than 2 million, a cool 46% ahead of a year earlier; corporate profits increased 11.4% in the second quarter. But all this was lost on Wall Street, where stock traders continued to fret about everything from interest rates to new tax legislation. The Dow Jones industrial average, the market's most widely watched barometer, dropped 7.62 points last week, to 863.48, its lowest since the first day of trading in January...
While "Zonians"fret, Panamanians prepare to move...
Flight Talk. The phenomenon reflects both cold economics and some fevered concern about political and social malaise abroad. Canadians fret about increasing tensions between the French-and English-speaking communities. Middle Easterners are apprehensive about what they see as political and economic drift in the European countries, where they have traditionally salted away their wealth. Says Dr. Nazmi Abdel Hamid, former governor of Egypt's Central Bank and now an adviser to the Arab-European Bank: "Increasingly...
...Square would now be a minor occurrence compared to Bob Dylan's grand entrance, but lines still form in front of Bogart movies at the local theaters. University librarians perpetually devise and abandon schemes to force students to return their books on time and Cambridge officials continue to fret over illegally parked cars. And the town remains, as The Crimson warned incoming freshmen more than two decades ago "a dreary place, given to rain and coal smoke and brown, granulated slush." Perhaps most importantly, or to some, most disappointingly, the campus has recaptured the quietude and air of normalcy that...
...Bossing. Carter apparently meant what he said about having a strong No. 2 man. He also needs Mondale as a link to the liberals in the Democratic Party who fret about the President's aversion to new spending programs. Mondale, moreover, enjoys the unqualified support of Hamilton Jordan, Carter's top aide, who originally backed him for the vice presidency. "In the past," says Jordan, "a President's staff has been able to boss the Vice President around. No one would dream of doing that with Mondale. I consider him my boss, like I consider Carter...