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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week's measures. Carter's political advisers were worried lest the new economic line alienate supporters on the President's left. Consumerist leaders, for example, are most unhappy about the prospect that regulation might be relaxed. The anti-inflation, save-the-dollar effort might well stir discontent among low-income voters, who may see it as pro-business (though a recession would hurt business sales and profits). Yet Vice President Walter Mondale reported to a final meeting Tuesday night that he had found deep and growing concern around the country about the dollar's plight, so that the political...
Europeans were quick to point out, though, that last week's rebound of the dollar did no more than restore it to its extremely low levels of three weeks ago; it still takes an even dollar, converted into Swiss francs, to buy a cup of coffee in Zurich. Washington has intervened in the exchange markets before and set off momentary dollar rallies, but it has never bought enough bucks for a long enough time to have any lasting effect. And even $30 billion is not much when measured against the $600 billion or more in greenbacks that are floating around...
...million deficit and may have to default on $15 million in short-term notes that come due next month. One way out, says Finance Director Joseph Tegreene, 25, is to float a $50 million bond issue in December. But the city's credit rating is as low as New York City's was during its 1975 financial crisis...
...true efficacy of the test is also clouded by the fact that though half the adult women in the U.S. have Pap smears annually, relatively few of the tests are on women who run the highest risk of developing cervical cancer. The disease is most prevalent among women in low-income groups, as well as those who begin having sex at an early age and have multiple sex partners...
...returning to work and need assistance with the chores at" home, good help is harder than ever to find. According to the National Committee on Household Employment, the number of domestics has declined dramatically from some 2.5 million four years ago to 1.5 million today. The reasons: generally low pay, few benefits, transportation difficulties, low status and the easy alternative of going on welfare. "There is still a stigma attached to being a domestic," says Historian David M. Katzman, author of Seven Days a Week (Oxford University Press; $14.95), a new book about household help in the U.S. from...