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...created at record rates, Carter's aides bickered over which was the greater peril: inflation or unemployment. Even when they agreed that it was inflation, they divided over how strongly to fight it. Political aides wanted the President to go gently, at least until after the November elections, lest any budget cuts alienate unionists, veterans, farmers, welfare recipients and other voters. Economic advisers wanted him to act firmly, paring away at programs. Characteristically, Carter split the difference, calling in April for a timid policy of a modest bud get constriction and limits on federal pay increases. He might have...
...some 32,000 nuns, fully twice the 1938 figure. The faith penetrates nearly every level of society. A vigorous Catholic intelligentsia has grown up in the Communist years and developed a link with human rights activists. The regime fears to damp down lest it trigger more protest. Concedes one Communist official ruefully: "The church is an unofficial opposition...
...love story to dwell on the her oine's father (Michael Constantine), a surly merchant with unexplained psychotic tendencies. McNichol and Davison just do not have much to do; their scenes are sexless tableaux vivants, designed to illustrate the story's ample collection of humanitarian platitudes. Lest we miss the point, the proverbially wise and rotund black maid (Esther Rolle of Good Times) lectures the characters on the virtues of brotherhood. Add Director Michael Tuchner's fussy attention to period detail and lugubrious pacing and you have a truly endless Summer...
Natural Sciences 110, "Automatic Computing," with the third largest enrollment in the University is being taught is section primarily by undergraduates, including at lest four sophomores...
...knew that doing one to five on an illegal bathing rap was unlikely, but this small town and its seemingly endless supply of cops would take the word of a respectable citizen against two dirty, hippy-looking hitch hikers, so we ignored her demands to open the door lest she see our jewelry spread out on the bed and call in the local National Guard unit. I didn't sleep well that night, expecting the wailing of sirens at any minute...