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...highlight of the Royals' legacy was a silver medal in the 16-and-under United States Championship and a fourth in the North American Championships in Vancouver in 1976. Duggan's personal peak came two years later, when after helping the Washington Select Team to the Western Region Cup, he narrowly missed making the Junior National Team despite a strong showing at the Western Regional Team's Training Camp in Colorado Springs...
...biggest change since I first went to Washington in 1949 has been the revision in the relationship between the presidency and the Congress. Immediately after World War II the presidency was at a peak; the Congress was very responsive, especially in foreign policy. Today a President really does not have the kind of clout with the Congress that he had 30 years ago, even in matters that affect national security. There is not the kind of teamwork that existed in the '50s, even if the President and a majority of the Congress belong to the same party...
After five months of decline, which brought the rise in consumer prices down from a peak of 18.2% in January, February and March to 8.7% in August, the inflation, rate did a power turn in September and hurtled right back up into double digits. During the month, prices rose by 1%, which was the highest increase since June and translates into a compound annual inflation rate of 12.7%. The surge was led by food prices, which are climbing partly as a result of the damage wrought by the summer drought on crops and livestock herds. The cost of cars also...
...unemployment picture has also begun to brighten. Normally, jobless rates continue to climb for many months after a slump bottoms out. But unemployment in the current downturn eased from a July peak of 7.8% to 7.5% in September, the lowest since April. Meanwhile, Commerce Department figures show that the economy as a whole expanded at an annual rate of 1% during July, August and September. Whether or not that poky growth can be taken as proof that the recession has passed, it does represent a sharp turn-around from the previous three months, when the nation's output...
Scalise has said all season that his goal was to peak for the tournaments, and it seems that the team goes into this morning's semi-final game with Brown right on schedule. The third-seeded Bruins knocked off sixth-ranked Penn, 4-0, yesterday, to earn another shot at Harvard, who beat them, 2-1, in Cambridge earlier this season...