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What will happen during the projected recession of 1980? James is fairly gloomy. Attendance for the first three months of this year is off 6%, a partial result, no doubt, of the inflationary squeeze. Says James: "A teen-ager who has to pay $20 to fill his car with gas and $5 for acne medicine is going to be hard-pressed to pay another $10 for a couple of movie tickets, a bucket of popcorn and soft drinks...
...unsecured creditors on a pro rata basis. Many of the creditors remained unpaid, while the debtor had little left with which to start a recovery. Only in about 15% of the cases did debtors choose to proceed under Chapter 13, or the "wage-earners' plan," which permitted partial repayment of debts over three years and sometimes longer, but subject to the creditors' veto...
Last week the first data from the test were revealed. The details were fragmentary, but the results looked promising. Of 16 patients with breast cancer that had metastasized (spread to other parts of the body), seven cases showed noticeable improvement, five of them enough to be classified as partial remissions. Tumors shrank substantially in three of eleven patients with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. Though it is too early in the treatment of patients with lymphoma (a cancer of the lymph system) or melanoma (skin cancer) to assess the effect of the drug, the attending doctors...
Despite all the careful orchestration, the partial list of potential cuts that emerged by week's end was not impressive. The White House ordered its budgeteers to try for only a $5 billion whack out of the entitlement programs-a timid move, since these programs swallow 77% of the entire budget and are rising at a dizzying pace. One option that Administration officials say they are considering is to slow the rise in Social Security benefits by modifying the formula that ties those benefits to the Consumer Price Index. That brought an outburst that typified the inflation fighters...
...Somerset Maugham become a master of self-defense? Previous biographies contain partial answers and frequent obfuscations. The aged author not only burned much of his correspondence before he died but also misled many writers about his life. One academic produced an entire book without ever suspecting that his subject was homosexual...