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...unemployment in Western Europe has gone from about 3% to 11% since 1970. In roughly the past decade the number of jobs in the European Community has risen only .5%, in contrast to 15% in the U.S. Says Pehr Gyllenhammar, president of Volvo, the Swedish car manufacturer: "Europe has grave problems-no growth, more people without jobs, little investment and sluggish productivity. Europe is not creating new resources, but is declining under the pressure of increased competition. When things are dying, we do not let them die any more. Companies do not go bankrupt the way they used...
...Mass Grave...
...kick off the event, more than 50 students dug a "mass grave"--a square eight feet long and two feet deep--on the Penn campus to symbolize the death a nuclear war would cause...
...existence of a partisan organization whether liberal or conservative within the university raises grave questions concerning academic independence," reads a section of the petition signed by 69 Faculty members...
...strength. Rev is a paranoid crank but the only person in the book to take heroic action. To keep matters consistently bizarre, Berger describes the codger's funeral through the eyes of Junior, the teen-age lout: "As he watched the bronze box being lowered into the grave he could not help thinking of that little ditty that went: Your eyes fall in/ Your teeth fall out/ The worms crawl over/ Your nose and mouth. Dying was a lousy thing, and he intended to avoid it, for its inevitability seemed only theoretical to him. How did they know that...