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...Mitterrand's guest last week. Accompanied by the President's black labrador, Nil, the two leaders looked like a pair of country squires as they ambled along the wooded lanes near Mitterrand's country home in Latche, south of Bordeaux. If they walked with a lighter step, it was perhaps because recently each had cause to help the other. Mitterrand was grateful to the Chancellor for supporting the devaluation, which imposes stiffer competition upon West German business. For his part, Schmidt already had Mitterrand to thank for publicly backing his battle against West German pacifists opposed...
Research conducted at UPenn indicates that the rechargeable plastic battery could be ten times more powerful and much lighter and long-lasting than a comparable lead-acid battery, the type most widely used today, Alan MacDiarmid, professor of Chemistry, said yesterday...
...Wednesday, when the battery ran down again in Manhattan. This time the lights went out from the Battery to Wall Street through Greenwich Village and as far north as 42nd Street. The blackout came just before rush hour when a substation transformer exploded. On Wall Street, the looting was lighter than usual; the stock exchanges had to close early. The streets around Macy's and Gimbels were packed with evicted shoppers. Only the dead tired knew Brooklyn, as thousands of stranded straphangers hoofed across the bridge. Power was restored before the sun set over the Hudson...
...fact endorsed Reagan as a candidate. The PATCO employees, along with workers in such heavy industries as steel, automobiles, petroleum refining, mining, construction, and most defense-related industries have annual incomes significantly above the U.S. median. The gap in wages and benefits between these workers and those in lighter, more labor-intensive industries such as textiles, furniture, jewelry, and all sorts of non-professional service has increased steadily since the Second World War. In 1950, the typical ladies' garment worker's wages were 67 per cent of the typical automobile worker's. By 1979, that figure had dropped...
...ordered it done, then surely he assigned the spirit of Iowa's own artist, Grant Wood, to stage the spectacle. The palette was filled with greens, from the dark of soybeans to the lighter grasslands, and the fields were etched by deep shadows and white gravel roads. Their borders were sprinkled with wild roses and ring-necked pheasants whose vivid fall plumage is just beginning to erupt. The dense stands of hybrid corn, with stalks 10-ft. high, are so well nourished with fertilizers that they look like flawless cut carpet laid meticulously from fence to fence...