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Meteorologists use something called a "discomfort index," which combines the temperature and the humidity rate, to tell us how nasty the weather is. Now Congress has hit upon a "misery index" to tell us how nasty the economic climate may be. A rather imprecise tool of the Joint Economic Committee, the index is reached simply by adding the inflation rate to the unemployment rate...
Nigeria. The government at present owns 55% of the oil operations of Gulf, Mobil, Texaco and a Shell-British Petroleum joint venture. And as recently as August, it disclaimed any attempt to grab for more. Nonetheless, some oilmen expect an effort at complete nationalization soon...
Pavlovich, now enrolled in Harvard's joint Law-Business program, is charged with having falsely identified himself as Jonas C. Cord and having falsely concealed that he owed the University more than $9,000 in debts, according to the U.S. Attorney's office...
Ruth Colker '78, task force co-coordinator, said yesterday that impetus for the joint task force resulted largely from a report to the University made last spring by Walter J. Leonard, assistant to President Bok, who criticized Harvard's lack of progress in fulfilling HEW requirements...
There were other troubles for the Kremlin to think about. In an extraordinary departure from tradition, the French Communist Party, long marked by its slavish loyalty to Moscow, moved sharply toward the more independent stance of its Italian comrades. In a joint communique issued by French Party Chief Georges Marchais and the Italians' Enrico Berlinguer, the two parties formally endorsed democratic change for their countries free of "all foreign interference" - a clear slap at Moscow...