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...Japanese yen and the British pound. Both have risen dramatically against the DM as well as the dollar, but for different reasons. With 2% unemployment, 6.9% inflation and projected growth of 5.3% in 1981, Japan's economy is far and away the industrial world's healthiest. Bankers believe that in view of this, the yen will continue to climb in value as 1981 progresses...
...Washington, says that most of the relatives have agreed to wait in the U.S. The State Department has promised that, within a few hours of their release, the freed hostages may telephone anyone they wish, anywhere in the world, at government expense. Hospital officials in Wiesbaden believe that the healthiest of the Americans might be ready to return home within 72 hours, setting off an emotional binge of welcome from Americans who have been waiting impatiently for the hostages' return for more than 440 days...
...need to dominate all life's situations, particularly the tricky ones involving head-to-head competition. When put in one of these trying predicaments, we may choose to escape--which usually does nothing to solve the problem--or we may combat our antagonists. According to Laborit, combat is the healthiest option, but society forces us to repress those more aggressive instincts, thus inhibiting us. "When we can't take out our aggressions on others," Laborit says grimly, "we can still take them out on ourselves." Inhibition, then, results in high blood pressure, asthma, ulcers, kidney stones, heart disease, and suicide...
...European leader. France's President Valéry discard d'Estaing was bracing for a spring election that could reduce his standing with the voters. In Britain, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher faced sharp criticism for her monetarist program. But Schmidt, 61, overseer of the Continent's healthiest major economy (5.1% inflation and 3.5% unemployment) had a new mandate to govern for another four years, probably without serious challenge...
...there the comparison ends. Where Skeffington is a symbol, the healthiest specimen around of the classic Irish pol, Levine is very much a human being, his own man rather than the property of every voter who happens to own a brogue or a pug nose...