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Writing about the olden days, Laura Wilder quickly snares all the incipient "how-to" book readers in her audience. A half dozen or so pages into Little House in the Big Woods, she is telling how Pa made a smokehouse out of a hollow tree to cure venison. She also describes cheese making, sod breaking, sugaring off, housebuilding (log, sod and frame), threshing, ice cutting and a hundred other practical matters. She offers assorted facts on such subjects as homestead law, horse breaking and how to manage a hoop skirt. The odd word may mystify (pieplant, claim shack, prove...
...others are interest rates and stock prices, which Laffer believes offer "unbiased forecasts" of future inflation and future profits, respectively. His "efficient markets theory" holds that interest rates and stock prices reflect largely the judgment of market insiders who "possess information about the future." This idea might bring hollow laughs from borrowers and investors who have lost money because of the gyrations of interest rates and the stock market...
...been suggested by one member of the committee that Chayes drafted the letter for Pusey's signature, but the author is really unimportant. It now remains to be seen whether the letter is a sign of things to come or merely a hollow gesture...
...uncertainty has blurred and shifted the memory of that crisp, snow-covered day when the New Frontier began ten years ago last week. Not only on the college campuses and in the underground press, but also in liberal journals, John F. Kennedy's ringing Inaugural Address now seems hollow, even dangerous to some of those who once admired...
...Savior. A handsome man with a lean, hollow-cheeked look, Gaddafi is known for his brashness and impetuosity. One of his first acts since he overthrew King Idris and became head of state in September 1969 was to take down the foreign-language street signs in his dreary seaside capital of Tripoli. Since then he has banished nightclubs, alcohol and the teaching of English, ousted 6,000 American servicemen from Wheelus airbase and forced the British to retire from their airbase at Tobruk...