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...double effect. Many people who want to buy a house now find that it is either beyond their means or they cannot find a mortgage for it. The median price of new houses in the U.S. has jumped to some $35,500, and mortgage rates now hover near 10%. Construction workers, from carpenters to lumberjacks, find that jobs are becoming scarcer every day. The situation is acute in what was one of the fastest-growing counties in the nation during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In New York's exurban Suffolk County, 40% of construction workers...
...part, of course, it is the season. Fresh-water fishing automatically summons thoughts of lyrical spring days, when minutes, like dragonflies, hover motionless over water. Perhaps more important are the benefits derived from angling's lack of speed. Unlike any other outdoor sport, it allows the mind to unreel and stretch itself. With luck, and time, and endurance, the angler gets the long-awaited result. Out of dark water, the fish flashes to the surface like a new idea-and in that instant the sport justifies its glorious history...
...spent almost all his money on three enormously effective 15-minute T.V. spots the night before the election. He was an awesome figure on T.V. He wore a black suit and sat in a black chair in a room with black walls, so that his face seemed to hover in mid-screen, and delivered his pitch in a deep, smoke-cured voice. At the end of each spot he would bring on his family and then dismiss his wife and daughters and fondly drape an arm around each of his two sons...
...three witches--or "weird sisters," as they are repeatedly called--as not only having their own spooky lairs, but also as permeating regular society. Thus they are garbed as wives of members of the court, and are listed as Lady Angus, Lady Caithness, and an unspecified dowager. They often hover on the sidelines, and even take over the small role assigned to Lady Macbeth's servant. It is only in their incantatory privacy that they become obviously witchlike by donning half-masks. (Kahn of course omits the spurious interpolations involving Hecate, the patroness of witches; less commendably, he had done...
...gasoline sales could force most automobiles off the streets of Los Angeles, a city almost totally dependent upon the internal combustion engine. The thrust of the proposed new controls would be to make it increasingly difficult for Americans to add their cars' pollution to the gases that already hover over the nation's major cities. Said acting EPA Administrator Robert...