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While a cheaper pound lowers the price of British goods in world markets, and thus provides an incentive to lag ging British industry, it also fuels inflation by raising the cost of imported food and raw materials. One official calculation is that each drop of 4% in the ex change rate of sterling adds 1% to domestic inflation, thus threatening the recent improvement (the rate has dropped 6.6 points in the last six months, to an annual pace of 13%). Still, once the spin began, Prime Minister James Callaghan and his Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey had little choice...
...swimming alone at night. When bits of her body wash ashore the next morning, there is no mistaking what has happened, but the town fathers persuade Police Chief Martin Brody not to close the beaches. After all, it is the beginning of the tourist season, rentals are lag ging anyway, and with luck the thing will rumble off to Patagonia, or at least to East Hampton...
...Middle East discovery was made last Christmas Eve by a French-led team of archaeologists. While dig ging at the ancient imperial Persian city of Susa in western Iran, they suddenly struck a large stone object. As they excitedly removed more earth, fingers, then a hand and finally most of a human figure emerged. Even though the head and shoulders were missing, hieroglyphics on the carved belt of the more than seven-foot-high, four-ton statue indicated that it was a figure of Darius the Great, one of the most powerful rulers of the ancient world...
Because they are humanized, these objects take on a marvelous, even clownish pathos. The blue vinyl mass of Oldenburg's Three-Way Plug - Scale A hangs from the ceiling, drag ging its prongs on the floor like a deflated giant; its sockets gaze mournfully at the room; one feels an urge to speak gently to the thing and soothe its defeat. By contrast, Oldenburg's Heroic Sculpture in the Form of a Bent Type writer Eraser, 1970, which was com missioned - and then rejected - for an office plaza on Manhattan's 57th Street, is a veritable parody...
...Palmer, Mike Cuellar and Dave McNally-helped hold Cincinnati's vaunted sluggers to a meager .213 average and only five home runs. And Frank Robinson, Boog Powell and Paul Blair backed a .292 Baltimore hitting attack that accounted for 50 hits and 33 runs. The Orioles' slug ging average of .509 was in fact a record for a five-game Series, as were their ten home runs. Even McNally got into the act as he became the first pitcher in Series history to hit a grand-slam home...