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...miles or less, and 99% are for 100 miles or less. Thus, at least in theory, the electric car's short range should not be a drawback. But Americans do not see their cars in such practical, unromantic terms. They tend to buy autos for peak use, for that annual trip to visit a distant relative. They want fast acceleration and a lot of miles between stops. To change all that, as Analyst Keller says with considerable understatement, "will require some adjustment in terms of how people think of their vehicle...
...Interest rates continued to slide almost as rapidly as they went up last winter and early spring. Major banks reduced their prime rate on business loans to 13%, far below the unheard-of peak of 20% reached in April. Fundamentally, that is a note of cheer: the decline will make it easier for consumers to finance purchases of houses and cars and for businesses to build new plants. But not much easier: the rates are still higher than any reached before 1979. And the speed and depth of the drop shows how abruptly the high rates choked off the business...
...Manhattan to review the nation's quickly deteriorating business situation. After looking at the economy's vital signs, the experts concluded that the recession of 1980 will be longer, deeper and more painful than was expected only a few weeks ago. Unemployment threatens to climb to a peak of 9% or more by early 1981, matching and perhaps even surpassing the 9% jobless rate that was briefly touched during the 1973-75 slump. Next month's release of growth figures for the second quarter is expected to show the economy dropping by about 8% on an annual...
...jitters of beleaguered residents, two moderate earthquakes suddenly jolted Mount Margaret, a peak only 13 km (eight miles) northeast of Mount St. Helens. Though scientists emphasized that these seismic disturbances were not hints of an impending eruption, the tremors only added to what might be called a case of tectonic fever on the West Coast. Hundreds of small earthquakes shook the Sierra Nevada in central California, causing landslides and some injuries. At least 100 of the quakes measured above 4.0 on the Richter scale and three reached 6.0 or higher, levels at which there would have been more widespread destruction...
Golf at Harvard is one of those sports "you have to do on your own," and besides forcing Greis to push herself into peak form, it also forced her to exploit all available opportunities herself. For Greis, that is what Harvard is all about. "I see college a little differently than most. Some live for the shelters of academia. I think you have to get out and attack the real world every so often. I want to go out there and make a world for myself--this place can be quite a shelter." Indeed, leaving Harvard's protection...