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...resolution did not include a number of provisions that were pressed by the Third World countries but strongly opposed by the U.S. and the European Common Market. Among them: A binding commitment to "index," or link, the price of commodities to the price of industrial goods, and an endorsement of a "new international economic order." In turn, the U.S. and other industrial states dropped their opposition to possible price-stabilizing agreements by producers of commodities like copper...
...Cambridge since purchasing the land in December 1956. In fact, since 1957, Harvard has paid Cambridge over $45,000 in property taxes for the land while it was being used exclusively by the Fly. (In 1974 dollars, with earlier payments recalculated according to changes in the consumer price index, the payments come to about...
...train going to Belfast from Dublin. He propped his elbows on the table separating us, and explained the situation in Belfast. He grew up in Belfast on the Upper Falls road (any Ulsterman knows that means Tommy is Catholic). And he lifted his right hand and stuck out his index finger to speak of one side, then raised the left and slowly released its index-finger while speaking of the other side. Then he hit the tips of his fingers together hard, so tremors went right down his arms and shook the table. He never said Catholic or Protestant, Nationalist...
...Index Number. FBI sources close to the investigation believe, however, that the note was more ominous than Kelley implied, and that the bureau's inspectors have learned that Oswald specifically threatened to take action against the Government. Just after the assassination, anguished FBI men in Dallas asked their superiors in Washington for guidance about the note. According to present and former FBI officials, John P. Mohr, then the bureau's administrative chief, told the Dallas agents to destroy it. That probably required considerable ingenuity, because the note had been assigned an index number and filed away. Subsequently...
Although the impact of still higher fuel prices in the economy will remain unclear for some time, indications are mounting that the long-awaited recovery is arriving sooner and snappier than many forecasts had predicted. Last week the Commerce Department reported that its index of leading indicators, which foretell the future direction of the economy, was up substantially in July for the fifth straight month. Meanwhile, the Labor Department announced revised figures showing a 5.8% rise during the April-June quarter in productivity in private non-farm sector jobs, which is vital to corporate profits and has been slipping...