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...cross-country skiers managed only 17 points last weekend compared with the 26 they collected at Dartmouth two weeks ago. "If we could have equalled the Dartmouth output, we would have moved up two places in the final standings," Hubbard said...
...many board members thought the losses, especially in wages, would be quickly made up as plants go on overtime to catch up on lost output. Several likened the impact of the cold to the effect of a prolonged strike in a basic industry; by the fourth quarter, they believe, the economy will be about where it would have been if this winter had been normal. So far as jobs and production are concerned, that is; the inflationary impact will be longer-lasting. IBM Vice President David Grove now expects a 6.4% rise in consumer prices this year...
...this stage, Keven McDonald, the Ivy League's leading scorer with a 20.5 average coming into last night's game, left his greeting card under the Harvard basket. En route to a devastating 28 point output, McDonald sunk a 20-footer, a 12-footer off the glass. After he canned his fifth bucket of the half in five attempts from the field, the cagers took a time-out to talk things over with 5:02 remaining...
...last year. Nonetheless, population growth averages 2.3% a year. That means that India each year must feed, clothe and house an additional 14 million people, more than the entire population of Australia. Consequently, the economic growth rate, which is projected at 4.4% a year, and the rises in food output are less impressive than they would seem to a Westerner. Some 40% of the country's 620 million people are still poor even by Indian standards: the Indian government sets the poverty line at an income of $8 per person per month...
...typical Beckett figure manifests both weary resignation and fits of intense anger at a world he can neither take nor leave. As Waiting for Godot showed startled audiences in 1953, those face-changing moods can produce compelling theater. Since then, Beckett has devoted the bulk of his dwindling output to drama and to voices, in various stages of disembodiment, passing the time of their Lives. Ends and Odds collects the most recent examples and proves that Beckett is still strong medicine, even in small doses...