Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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VERY FEW STUDENTS in these rural states choose to leave their cozy existence to seek adventure in the urban world outside. Of those who seek higher education at all, most attend local or state universities to learn a little, party a lot, get married and come back to their home towns. Many marry as soon as they graduate from high school and immediately settle into a life of moderate work, church functions, child-raising, putting on weight, and sitting on the front porch on summer evenings. Living a secure, contented life, these people become part of a strong, tightly-knit...
Last week Republican Congressman James Quillen of Tennessee picked up the partisan attack where Rhodes had left off. Said he: "The House has no business inflicting higher oil prices on the American people in order to fulfill President Carter's campaign promises to the maritime unions." Sponsor Murphy replied that he and his supporters were only trying to salvage the U.S. merchant fleet, which has dwindled from 5,000 to 570 ships during the past three decades...
...sporadic efforts to check inflation by restricting the growth of money supply push up interest rates -and rising interest rates have helped to depress the stock market. Last week the White House issued a highly unusual "notice to the press" warning the Federal Reserve not to push interest rates higher...
...expected to add no more than $2.2 billion, or about .4%, to employers' wage bills next year. The legislation will, however, have at least a moderately adverse effect on unemployment. The department reports that about 90,000 people will not be hired next year because the higher wage is certain to discourage some employers from taking on additional employees. That is bad news for unskilled youths, especially black teenagers, whose jobless rate is now 37.4%. Says Murray Weidenbaum, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "The great majority of economists-liberal and conservative -feel that this legislation...
Still, it is not Burns alone who makes the picture work. Singer John Denver is agreeable as his reluctant modern Moses, and Teri Garr is marvelous as a model of wifely forbearance, deftly blending skepticism about her husband's claims to contact with the higher-up and faith in his fundamental good sense. Carl Reiner's low-keyed direction avoids some obvious errors. Once Denver begins preaching the latest word from on high, the media get interested, and there is an opportunity to make the customary comments on the circus aspects of overnight celebrity. But Reiner makes...