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...mortgage. The 15-year, fixed-rate home loan is favored by married couples in their 30s and 40s who together earn $60,000 or more. Virtually unknown a year ago, this new form of financing now accounts for more than 14% of all loans made by America's largest mortgage bankers...
...struggled to find a way out of its financial problems, the government was relieved by the failure of the miners' strike. The union's basic problem was one of strategy: it had signed a new agreement with Anglo American Corp. of South Africa, the country's largest mine operator, and had called a strike in the mines where union strength was weak, ranging between one-half of 1% and 12% of the total work force. It thus failed to get the support of large numbers of nonunion miners. After three days of confusion and clashes, the union gave...
...huge dislocations forced by the hurricane's peculiarly changeable temperament put the storm in a class by itself. Some 2 million people had to be evacuated from vulnerable homes in states on the Gulf. Florida, though it has had to cope with many a hurricane, recorded its largest evacuation ever, with as many as 1.25 million residents being forced out of dwellings or holiday retreats. Worse still, Elena's unpredictable zigging and zagging compelled hundreds of thousands of Floridians to evacuate twice. Officials took some heart, even if the inconvenienced did not, from the fact that the mass movements...
...clear picture. In July, HBO became the first cable channel to send out a coded signal. Dish owners who want to watch HBO will be able to buy a descrambling device for $395 and then pay a monthly service fee. Showtime and Denver-based T.C.I., the country's largest operator of cable systems, will soon begin scrambling signals...
...Titanic was her name, the largest and most luxurious ocean liner afloat. She weighed 46,328 gross tons and was 882.5 ft., roughly 3 1/2 city blocks long. Her engines, developing 55,000 h.p., could drive the Titanic at a speed of up to 25 knots. And the luxury suites (price: $4,350 for an Atlantic crossing) contained elegant furnishings, sumptuous draperies and even private promenade decks...