Word: peaks
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ECONOMIC PREDICTIONS. The real shocker. The Administration is now forecasting two full years of double-digit unemployment: 10.9% this calendar year, a trifle higher than the 41-year peak of 10.8% recorded in December, and an even 10% in 1984. By the fourth quarter of that year, when the nation will be choosing its President, the rate would still be 9.6%.* It would not get down to 6.6% until 1988. The reason, Reagan's economists predict, is that the national output of goods and services will rise only 1.4% this year and 4% in later years, too slowly...
...popular, respected state legislator, both descended from prominent pioneer stock, and their pride fired his ambition. But after Sam Ealy Johnson's fall. Johnson City and Blanco County struck back against their once-haughty denizens, systematically snubbing the Johnsons over a period of years. Humiliation reached a painful peak when Lyndon's high-school romance was thwarted by an angry father distrustful of his "dissolute, irresponsible" family...
...think I would make two points here. First, you're looking at a very volatile oil market. Some people characterize it as a peak-and-valleys syndrome. It's very difficult to expect the private sector to invest large amounts of capital banking on a specific oil price, to insure the profitability of that investment. Therefore, during this period it is highly likely that private investment and alternatives and options for the future will decline. I think that this puts a burden on government to try to enter the breach...
...school meet at Pico Peak. Vt. the Harvard alpine skiing team qualified for next week's Division II championships yesterday. The Crimson made its best team showing of the year in a meet marred by heavy rain...
...positions in the church say that the worldwide membership was at most 2 million at the height of the movement in the early and mid-1970s, and that 75% of the total lived in the U.S. The church claims that millions more took at least some Scientology courses. The peak income year for Scientology reportedly was $100 million. Now, according to defectors, there are only some 100,000 active members in the U.S. and perhaps the same number abroad...