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...wild fluctuations in oil, food and housing prices, can cause actual inflation to run either above or below this so-called core rate for long periods. For the past several years, most economists figured that the core rate was stuck at 9% to 10%, kept there by a fruitless scramble among workers to jack up their pay in order to catch up with past inflation. Now nearly all economists agree that the core rate is coming down, and is at present probably about...
...some defense scientists, go considerably beyond previous U.S. assessments of the Soviet lead in the space arms race. The two nations agreed in 1967 to ban weapons of mass destruction from space, but efforts to extend the pact to cover antisatellite weapons, including space-based lasers, have been fruitless. The Pentagon says that since 1977 the Soviets have had an operational nonlaser anti-satellite satellite that explodes near the target, spraying it AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY with metal-piercing fragments. The n U.S. hopes to test its own satellite-killer system this summer: rockets launched from F-15 fighter jets...
...news media than by the government forces and guerrillas combined. Those who strike it lucky are envied by the others. One night, at the microwave station feeding the day's catch to the U.S.,-this reporter, who had found only sleeping soldiers after a day of fruitless searching, was told by a competitor that "ABC has bang-bang just like Viet Nam [the highest class of footage]. Tim Ross [ABC freelance correspondent] has a colonel in a jeep, just like central casting, saying they have a wounded black guerrilla they suspect is a Cuban...
...snuck in so smooth and slippery we didn't even hear it." But when he awoke, surrounding houses were gone. In another Santa Cruz town, Felton (pop. 2,062), John Raskins and his family fled from their home as it filled with muck. A salvage attempt proved fruitless. Says Haskins, 33: "Every time we get feeling bad about some of the things we lost, I just think that I have my three children...
Down the stretch and into overtime, the action in the penalty boxes grew busier. The referees distributed five roughing penalties, including one which gave the Crimson a fruitless power play...