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...presidential campaign of 1981, François Mitterrand sharply criticized that pell-mell pace, partly because a sluggish economy had dampened demand for electricity...
After spending 1982 in the doldrums, the economies of the nations bordering the Pacific are again becoming dynamos. In South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, where factories are churning out exports at a pell-mell pace, economic growth has reached annual rates in the 6% to 9% range, up from 4% to 7% a year ago. Japan is gliding along at a more modest 3.4% rate, but its government has a plan to spur domestic demand. Australia is bouncing back from its worst recession in three decades...
...from June. Otto Eckstein, a Harvard economics professor, predicts that the housing slowdown will help reduce G.N.P. growth in the fourth quarter to a 5% annual rate. For an economy in which inflation remains a constant threat, that may be a better cruising speed than the current pell-mell pace...
...mistake to deride the potency of stereotypes in the theater or the power of good-vs.-evil allegories, however simpleminded. Here the premise is that Mr. Mister (David Schramm), the boss of Steeltown, U.S.A., is a cigar-chomping tyrant, and his gutsy prole of a foe, Larry Foreman (Randle Mell), is a knight in blue-collar armor. We meet Mister's toadies: mousy Reverend Salvation, sycophantic College President Prexy and craven Editor Daily. As a whore with a heart of tarnished nickel, Lisa Banes is achingly vulnerable, and Michele-Denise Woods keens a militant lament for her injured brother...
Stern's pell-mell pursuit of the Hitler "scoop" was not resoundingly justified at newsstands. The first diaries issue, April 25, though promoted as containing some of the most titillating items, sold 2 million copies, about 300,000 more than usual...