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...rising price has already forced the oil-importing developing nations to pile up a staggering $300 billion in foreign debts, and some Third World countries are close to bankruptcy. A few big defaults could severely shake the international banking system. As poignant testimony to the squeeze on all the developing countries, Sri Lanka is now begging for mercy from the OPEC price pinch. In a government-sponsored petition that President Junius Jayawardene hopes will be signed by 3 million of his nation's 14.5 million citizens, the island republic pleads plaintively that the cartel grant special concessionary prices...
...toymaker may say, "Give me a way to display a Wumpus! Make him buzz and light up!" and next Christmas everyone may be going into debt to buy an expensive, electronic Wumpus Wars. By then, civilization as we have already started to forget it will have disappeared beneath a pile of spent alkaline cells...
PARENTS DON'T PILE their kids into the backs of station wagons any more. Too bad, because this Mikado is the perfect incentive. Pack them in, trundle them over to the Radcliffe Yard, and they'll stay tame and happily out of everyone's way for the better part of the afternoon. What's more, you might enjoy...
After fruitless series by both teams, Harvard took the ball at its own 45. After three runs, the Crimson faced a fourth and inches at the Eli 45. St. John then took the keeper airborne over the pile to give Harvard the first down. But with seconds left in the quarter, St. John underthrew Horner on a third and 7 at the Yale 42, forcing a Harvard punt to close out a lackluster period...
...ranch house could pass for the Southfork Hilton, and it must take a tanker and a half to fuel all those Mercedes in the driveway. The lovely Ewing ladies flop around the house in designer dresses, and when the good ole boys go hunting, they don't pile into a pickup. They whir away in a helicopter...