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...Iran's oil revenues are increasing astronomically. Technocrats working on the country's latest five-year development plan have been forced to rejiggle the revenue side of the ledger almost daily; it now stands at $23 billion in oil income this year, v. $5 billion last year. Even if there is no further increase in oil prices, income next year should be more than $25 billion...
...setback extended Dartmouth's unblemished record to four games and dropped the Crimson ledger...
...past quarter-century. Consumer prices in Portugal were rising at an annual rate of 31%, in France 17%, Britain 23%, Italy 18%, and Belgium 17%. The quadrupled cost of crude oil, which Western Europe must import for most of its energy requirements, plunged the Continent's trade ledger deep into the red. Britain, France and Italy together were expected to run a $28 billion balance of trade deficit this year...
Rubin's vision of the Viet Nam War through the prism of a grim fairy tale may not satisfy rationalists who demand an accounting of the conflict's cause and effect, a ledger of lessons to be learned for future profit. Successful art, however, satisfies another human need: the desire not to calculate but to know in the heart how things are. While The Barking Deer is not the whole story, it is a drop of moisture in a desert of data. Like those birthday dewdrops, it bears spirits that should be passed...
...plus side of the ledger, the squad beat Hollins, 6-3; Queens College in Charlotte, N.C., 9-0; American University, 7-0; and Georgetown by a 7-0 count. The wins against American and Georgetown came without the services of number-one singles player, freshman Denise Thal...