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For a time, Bush was perky as usual. "I hope we haven't peaked too soon," he jested of his fading candidacy. He tried to telephone his mother at almost midnight to tell her of his primary victory, and when he learned that she had gone to sleep, he...
The auto-buying public's splurge on big cars was encouraged by the Federal Government's ill-conceived energy policy. Because of a complicated pricing system in which cheaper domestic oil holds down the cost of imported crude, the U.S. driver was enjoying Government-subsidized fuel. Between 1974...
In the past two years, Abboud moved aggressively to get more clients with fixed-rate loans covered by short-term borrowing. Like many other bankers and economists, he figured that interest rates had peaked. When rates continued up toward 20%, his bank's profits nosedived $14 million in the...
Most of all, Seattle is where one goes to be dazzled by some of the most spectacular big-league nature found anywhere. With Puget Sound on one side and Lake Washington on the other, the city is a panorama of pleasure boaters, skyscrapers, the 1962 World's Fair Space...
Mendelsohn said increased weapons programs and the slow death of the SALT II arms limitation treaty may have convinced the Soviets that the era of cooperation "which peaked in June with the beginning of the SALT II treaty" was over.