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...dropped from 130 to about 75. A survey of 1,200 video stores conducted in January by the trade publication Video Store showed that 28% of the merchants were dueling with another store on the same block. The competition has forced down prices from an average $4.75 for an overnight rental two years ago to $2.40 today, and 99 cents specials are commonplace...
...Jones average of industrial stocks is taking sharper, swifter leaps and dives than ever before. Buy! Buy! Buy! Sell! Sell! Sell! The biggest stock boom on record is leading to manic levels of activity on the nation's exchanges. Win! Win! Win! Millions, even billions, are being pocketed almost overnight, in split-second transactions affecting the fate of some of America's most important corporations. Lose! Lose! Lose! At the same time, Wall Street is struggling to recover in the public eye from some of the worst insider-trading scandals in its history...
...understand what was at stake. It is sheer nonsense for the President to be talking about Star Wars. In the talks, he should be concentrating on ICBMs, which are an absolute with regard to arms control." But Ball agrees that the elimination of nuclear arms cannot be achieved overnight, and would in any case alarm other NATO members. "The Europeans believe that World War III would be inevitable if there were no strategic deterrent protecting them. The idea of relying exclusively on conventional weapons distresses them, especially those who remember World War II. These are matters that should be considered...
John Jacobson '90 and Jeffery Kuo '90, both of Weld Hall, were among the lucky few who had tickets to the big game. They went to Fenway Sunday evening and waited overnight to purchase their bleacher seats...
...typical Harvard student lived in the Yard as a freshman and then moved to a River House for his three upperclass years. His 'Cliffie girlfriend--who lived in the Radcliffe Quad--visited overnight, and together they protested the Vietnam...