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During most of the post-World War II era, offices, apartments and even billboards have dwarfed church steeples. In response, religious buildings have frantically vied for attention with bizarre bell towers, frenzied A-frames and strange paraboloids. But until recently, few churches have managed to convey a religious quality beyond that of a contorted steeple or a neon JESUS SAVES sign...
...clothing, to cars, kitchen appliances, even a roof over one's head, is increasingly painful. Indeed, by the common consent of economists, towering interest rates have done more than any other single factor to drive the U.S. into a recession that still threatens to push unemployment to a post-World War II high...
...refusal to sell Alaskan oil to his country and the Allies post-World War II limit on Japan's defense spending have also added to the trade deficit, Amaya said. Japan's defense budget is limited to less than two percent of its gross national product...
...four weeks and thus are not included in the monthly unemployment totals, reached a post-war high of 1.2 million during the last three months of 1981, up from 1.05 million the year before. And the number of people working part time, because their hours were cut below 35 a week or because they were unable to find full-time work, grew to a record 5.4 million, up 360,000 in a single month. The unemployment rate for adult men jumped to 8%, a post-World War II high, from November's 7.2%. Economists consider this figure quite significant...
...Soviet leadership in those days was eager for a European security conference that would consecrate the post-World War II borders and, implicitly, acknowledge the Soviet Union's sway over its satellites in Eastern Europe. Kissinger made clear to the Kremlin that the U.S. might participate in that enterprise if the Soviets agreed to prevent further crises over Berlin and to limit strategic nuclear weapons. The result was a package deal containing the Berlin accords of 1972, the SALT I agreements of 1972, and the European Security Conference...