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Dates: during 1970-1979
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To most investors the stock market is the Dow Jones industrial average, that index of 30 stocks whose price fluctuations are a barometer of good and bad times. But complaints are common that the Dow is not really a representative market measure. In hopes of improving it, the Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dowversifying | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

Her cinematic organization is perhaps most effective in "The White Album," and most strained in "In the Islands," where she leaps from a resort hotel to a graveyard for Vietnamese soldiers to James Jones with no clear direction. In this first essay, she describes a Doors recording session, a college...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Crippling Sensitivity | 7/13/1979 | See Source »

At public hearings on the plan held in five cities, many citizens criticized Carter's plan and proposed energy-saving alternatives, including investment credits for the installation of more efficient cooling and heating systems. "The President's 80° proposal is intolerable," declared Houston Mayor Jim McConn. "With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Fahrenheit Eighty (Gasp!) | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Downstairs Pamela C.R. Jones, a percussionist with the Jerusalem Symphony, teaches a course on "Music for Dancers." Across campus in Memorial Hall, Leon Collins, the great '40s tap dancer, leads students in the study of his art. And Iris M. Fangar, a dance critic and director of the Harvard Summer...

Author: By Pamela Mccuen, | Title: 'Elegance, Distinction, Aristocracy,' and Variety: The Dance Center | 7/6/1979 | See Source »

The only surprise in Carter's speech was the statement that the Joint Chiefs of Staff would testify for the treaty. Actually, only the Chairman, Air Force General David Jones, and two other members, Air Force General Lew Allen Jr. and Admiral Thomas Hayward, support the treaty, and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Signed And Sealed... | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

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