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...economy this time around is the renewed climb in interest rates, which dropped during the spring and early summer but have once again begun marching upward. High interest rates reduce the willingness of consumers to go into debt, and that spells big trouble not only for manufacturers of major household appliances such as dishwashers and refrigerators, but even more so for homebuilders and automakers, who to gether account one way or another for about 20% of G.N.P...
Here the film's inconsistency and narrow-mindedness become more disturbing than silly. If the Army has given Judy such fulfillment and wisdom, why does she unhesitatingly reject it? She moves in with her lover, runs his household for him, dyes her hair a hideous orange at his behest, and dutifully mops up his dog's urine...
...used car with cash and traveled to England on his $12,800 salary. His room and board: $15 per week. Winston Whitlock, 23, returned to his parents' Atlanta home-and his father's restaurant-supply business-after leaving the Air Force. He earns his keep through household chores...
...time, the association branched out by arranging dances, outinigs, picnics and speeches. "But the dues always remainded the same, 10 cents a week," says Johnson, who reports that the organization is still active. Other clubs included the Good Samaritans, the Galiean Fishermen, the Household of Ruth, the Heroines of Jericho, the Harvard Lodge of Oddfellows, and the Elks. Other Blacks congregated around the many churches in the community, including the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which served a large West Indian population. And for politically active Blacks, Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) served as a forum. Garvey...
...Pittsburgh's municipal unions and cut the city payroll by about 25% while he was mayor in 1970-77, lost the Senate race against Schweiker in 1974 and the Governor's race against Republican Richard Thornburgh in 1978, partly because of insufficient support in Philadelphia. Specter, a household name in Philadelphia as a crusading district attorney in 1966-74, lost the 1976 Republican Senate primary to John Heinz and the 1978 gubernatorial primary to Thornburgh, partly because he could not attract enough votes in western Pennsylvania...