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...economy is that consumers, who had been hanging onto their cash, seem to be ready to spend. Consumer confidence, as measured by the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumer Attitudes, is now rising faster than at any other time since the poll began in 1946. The survey index jumped a total of 20% in March and April and is expected to show another hefty gain in May. "We are talking about a surge in consumer confidence that really has not been seen before," said Richard Curtin, the survey director and a guest at last week's meeting. "In fact...
...Volume X, titled Companion, is a kind of Pepysopedia, ranging from biographical sketches of all the myriad characters to a 25-page essay on Pepys' passion for music. "Music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is," he confessed. Volume XI, finally, is an index, bibliography and list of corrections, and with that, this handsomely definitive work is done...
Privacy, however, is only one reason that civil libertarians attack vagrancy provisions. "Most officers use race as an index of suspicious conduct," says Mark Rosenbaum of the American Civil Liberties Union, who argued the case on Lawson's behalf. Rosenbaum naturally exulted in last week's ruling, declaring in Orwellian rhetoric that it "puts 1984 on hold." Because the decision objected only to the law's failure to spell out what identification would be satisfactory, however, California officials are already considering language for a new vagrancy statute...
...termites by jabbing their nests with twigs. The assassin bug of South America, also a termite fancier, approaches its prey by gluing nest material on its back to serve as camouflage. But, says Beck, the bug's behavior is probably "innate or genetically prewired." Another scientific index is the ability of animals to transmit information through so-called language behavior. Bees, foraging for pollen, return to the hive and perform an intricate figure-eight dance to map the route for other bees. Biologist James Gould of Princeton University says, however, that the dance is in the bees' genes...
...government's inevitable call for restraint was surprisingly well received at last week's gathering in the capital city of Canberra. The unions seemed willing to settle, for the time being at least, for modest wage increases pegged to the consumer price index. Business leaders struck an equally harmonious chord. Many, in fact, went so far as to advocate a freeze on senior management salaries, shareholders' dividends and medical fees...