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Renewed economic gusto at these high levels of inflation could lead to even faster growth in living costs. Consumer prices during December rose another 1.2%, making 1979's inflation of 13.3% the highest annual rate since 1946. One sign of steeper prices: the 640-page budget this year jumped in price by 75? and now retails...
...service as naturalist aboard the H.M.S. Beagle, which spent five years in the early 1830s charting and surveying the waters off the coasts of South America. It was the chief event of his life. Though he had little formal scientific training, the young man, played with athletic gusto by Malcolm Stoddard, had an "enlarged curiosity," as his uncle phrased it. Darwin's native skepticism turned the voyage into a fresh, vigorous inquiry into the nature of things, and the Beagle carried not only him but mankind into a new era of understanding...
...diet that holds his 6-ft. 1-in. frame down to 205 Ibs., 20 Ibs. lower than last February. Dieting does not come easily. Kennedy has been known to search his staffers' desks for peanuts and crackers. Ethel Kennedy says he can describe a meal with so much gusto that "you feel you've eaten it yourself...
...many of the most voluble leftists of the period have faded from the polemical scene: Noam Chomsky, Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Staughton Lynd, Jerry Rubin, Andrew Kopkind ("Morality, like politics, starts at the barrel of a gun"). The Commentary crowd, meanwhile, carries on the battle with undiminished gusto...
Bowersock theorizes that faculty members are hesitant to speak at CUE meetings because students seem so eager to make their points and "wave their hands with gusto." Because the CUE is open to guests, many ERG members attend the meetings and Bowersock believes the professors find the imbalanced ratio--sometimes 25 students to two or three faculty members--"overwhelming." Professors seem less anxious when lecturing to vastly larger student audiences in class each week, but then monologues and dialogues are two different things...