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...field events, the women he'll have his eyes on are junior Jackie Boudreau in the high jump, Moore in the long jump and freshmen Jennifer St. Louis and Jane Grim in the throwing and leaping events respectively...
...next year, more will be needed to help Ethiopia, and its neighbors, return to productive harvests. Many officials assume that the present torrent of sympathy will subside quickly as memories of the TV footage begin to fade and world attention turns to other matters. The results would be grim...
Henry Kaufman's grim predictions have made the Salomon Brothers chief economist Wall Street's leading doomsayer. But his assessment of the economic problems that President Reagan must tackle in his second term is widely shared by economists and business leaders. After a first term in which he presided over historic cuts in taxes and social spending combined with a major military buildup, Reagan now must confront the largest and most menacing budget deficits in U.S. history. Along with them have come woes ranging from an unprecedented international trade gap (an estimated $114 billion) to jitters about interest...
...Resistance. The worst shot in a village hunts a German soldier in "The Animal Woods," a zoological Times Square of distracting animals. This neo-folktale is an early sign of the interest that led Calvino to compile the "Italian Folktales," the greatest collection of folklore since the Brothers Grim...
...page report, the commission painted a grim picture of artful operators who slip by current provisions of the federal Bank Secrecy Act. They pour huge amounts of cash into banks almost with blithe abandon, then withdraw it practically at will. The present law, passed in 1970, calls for a bank to notify federal authorities whenever a deposit exceeds $10,000. The law, though, has often been ineffective, in part because of wrist-slapping fines of only $1,000 against banks that fail to report the large deposits...