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...employ as justification for his hesitations. Even without it the man evidently would come to resist the impulsiveness and vitality of his young lover. When she finally leaves him, it is not the taboo that drives them apart, but her romantic insistence on ending the affair at its peak, before quarrelsomeness sets...
Silver, which had climbed more sharply than gold during 1979, leaped by $7 per oz., to a peak of $41.50, or a rise of 20%. Then it, too, fell back, with equally extreme gyrations, to some $36.10. Even at that figure, silver was trading for more than gold had been worth at the start of the 1970s...
After hitting a first period peak, the Harvard hockey roller coaster swerved, dipped, plunged and finally lurched to a halt as the erratic icemen dropped a 6-2 decision to Boston College at the Bright Center last night...
...hostile North Korean Forces which had devastated their country in the early 1950s, were willing to cooperate with military leaders in preventing what they thought of as threats to their security. At the same time, Korea in the 1970s was extraordinarily dynamic growth rate that corresponded to Japan's peak growth rate in the 1960s, bringing the Korean economy by the end of the 1970s up to the level of a major European power. Although disturbed by rising energy costs and inflation by the end of the 1970s, most Koreans had benefited enormously by the unbelievably rapid improvement in standard...
...year. Though plenty of openings will remain for the skilled, untrained workers will be let go and let down. Unemployment, which dropped slightly last month to 5.8%, is expected to rise to 7.7% by the final quarter of 1980. That will be not nearly as severe as the recent peak of 9% in May 1975. Most board members agree that unemployment will hit a high around Election Day in November, which will hurt Jimmy Carter, and that the jobless rate again will start declining as the economy picks up at year's end. However, one member, Consultant David Grove...