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...defense. It argued that the strength of the Warsaw Pact's conventional forces, compared with NATO'S, is continuing to expand, and that there is a "growing disparity" between the Soviet deployment of intermediate-range nuclear weapons not covered by the proposed SALT II treaty and the laggard Western development of comparable arms. The White Paper declared further that the Warsaw Pact armies appear to be geared primarily for attack rather than defense...
...brightening an important slice of a weary urban America. Financially, the effort is paying off. Business this year-boosted by Sunday openings-could reach nearly $200 million, up more than 10% from last year. Finkelstein anticipates a record Christmas. That speaks loudly to other retailers again looking at once-laggard Macy's Herald Square. It has something to show off these days...
...mother would have to enter the work force-some experts suggest after the youngest child has turned six; others say twelve or 14. Drafters are still grappling too with the question of a head of family who will not work. The program will probably eliminate cash assistance for the laggard, but not for the spouse or children. States and localities would be free to adjust to the federal program as they saw fit, either maintaining or reducing their own plans...
...provide 90% of the visitors to such established resorts as Acapulco and Mazatlan as well as the new playgrounds at Cancun on the Caribbean and Ixtapa on the Pacific. The devalued and floating peso has reduced the price of a Mexican vacation by at least one-third, but the laggard tourist trade has not picked up as expected. For a decade before 1975, tourism had been rising at the rate of 14% a year until it reached $1.2 billion; in 1975 it fell by 7%, and last year it declined again...
...dark suits and white shirts, Carney's character could not be more conspicuously out of place in modern Los Angeles. Then there is the glaring contrast between his tough, rational practicality of mind and the laid-back characters he keeps en countering. How, one wonders, will this cultural laggard cope with them? And even if he catches their drift, what if they get tough with him? He suggests a physical fragility that may not permit him to put enough muscle behind his hard-working mouth. There's good suspense here, the kind that derives from really caring...