Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...test) for anyone over 35 before any form of exercise is begun. In selecting a sport, weight, body build and general flexibility must be considered. Fat people should forsake jogging in favor of sports like swimming that mitigate the effects of gravity. Women are looser jointed than men, therefore less likely to suffer muscular strains and tendinitis, but are more susceptible to joint problems...
Director Irvin Kershner's style is no less out-of-touch. He accompanies the eye-gouging murders with creepy music and lighting. The film's obligatory romantic interlude, between Laura and a detective (Tommy Lee Jones), is set to violins. The acting is out of a '50s B movie. In the effort to create as many suspects as possible, Kershner has directed most of his cast to come on as twitchy psychopaths. Brad Dourif, playing an ex-con chauffeur, manages to seem even more bonkers here than he did as an inmate in One Flew over...
...young two-income families do salt funds away, it is in bonds or real estate -the one popular long-term investment -rather than stocks, since they saw their parents hurt by inflation and market plunges. Compared with young couples ten or 20 years ago, they spend more and plan less for the future, figuring that something (Medicare, Social Security or private pensions) will take care of that distant tomorrow. Collectively, these young two-earner families are a new elite...
...deal: inflation may turn out to be no worse than expected this year. That about sums up the import of the news last week of a slowdown in wholesale-price increases in July. The month's annual rate of 6.2% was about a third less than the rises in May and June, and the smallest jump in four months...
...there was less to the good news than met the eye. Food prices, which rocketed during the winter and spring, dipped 0.3% at wholesale in July, promising some relief at the supermarket checkout in coming months. The dip had been expected, however. Indeed, if it had not occurred, the U.S. would have been in a desperate inflationary jam: wholesale prices of other finished goods continued to jump at double-digit rates. At best, chances have only improved for holding consumer-price increases for the year to no more than the 7.2% that the Administration forecast. Says Alan Greenspan, a member...