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...recession blues, according to studies by the University of Michigan and the Conference Board. Over the long haul, prudent consumers who feel optimistic about the future could help build a stronger foundation for the economy. For one thing, the U.S. personal-savings rate, which dropped from 9% in the mid-1970s to a low of 2.3% in late 1987, is now about 4% and climbing. That will provide a larger pool of investment capital and could help the U.S. regain its competitive footing. The poor may also eventually benefit if the notion of a kinder, gentler America is translated into...
...police commissioner position was created by the city council in the mid-1970s in response to concerns about the department's relationship with the community, but was never filled until this year, when councillors argued that an outside leader is necessary to better respond to the needs of individuals throughout the city...
...Bakal brothers, Eddie and Jake, the road to the American dream runs dead center through one of the most lethal neighborhoods in Detroit. The brothers, who moved there from Iraq in the mid-1970s, own a convenience store at the intersection of Seven Mile and Van Dyke roads, an easy rifle shot from streets lined with abandoned houses and open-air drug markets. To look at their tidy store, swaddled in bulletproof glass, surrounded by surveillance cameras and equipped with a small arsenal in back, one would think they too were in the middle...
...position was created in the mid-1970s, but the council only alloted money for it last spring. City Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 said that Healy will decide whether to hire another police chief in addition to the commissioner...
...earliest to do so was Mathews-Roth,who legitimized beta carotene as a viable medicaldrug in the mid-1970s. Then working onprotoporphyria, an obscure disease which rendersits sufferers highly sensitive to light,Mathews-Roth stumbled across the organic moleculeas a treatment...