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...board agreed that the business outlook in Europe is gloomier than in the U.S., which also faces postwar record unemployment and stagnating output. Said Brittan of the difference: "For all its problems, the U.S. still has a fairly flexible labor market. There has been hardly any increase in remuneration per head, after adjusting for inflation, since 1967. Europe suffers from rigid labor markets in which costs never go down or even stabilize. As a result, recessions in Europe now tend to be severe, while booms prove short-lived...
...coming down, but they can mount a sustained upward move only when corporate earnings improve. This is the food on which bull markets feed." Gordon believes that the Dow will rise only to about 900 in the next few months. Richard McCabe, a vice president with Merrill Lynch, is gloomier; he predicts that the Dow will lose all its surge of last week and sink below 780 by fall...
...tile-covered base of the temple is a muddy blue-green that looks gloomier on the street than it did in Graves' delicate pastel drawings. It contains arcades on three sides, which lead to a restaurant, bookstore and several shops. It also contains a rectangular entrance portal that will eventually double as the pedestal for Raymond Kaskey's Portlandia, a female figure symbolizing the city's virtues...
Late Innings, a collection of 16 pieces written between the 1977 season and the strike-shortened 1981 season reveals a new and gloomier view of baseball. In a 1977 essay. Angell writes of a malaise he feels toward baseball, blaming it in part on "the distraction of the price tags and business squabbles and owners statements and press releases that are now attached...to so many stars and teams, and even to the simplest and most cheerful scraps of early baseball news." This growing disenchantment is the one recurrent theme in this collection of articles on a range of baseball...
...funeral. More than 50 game dates were lost because of the strike, and fan interest has clearly waned. Attendance for both leagues was down more than 2,000 a game, an 11% decrease from prestrike levels. When compared with the same dates last season, the figures were gloomier still: average attendance dropped...