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While almost all forecasters expect unemployment to grow, they predict only scant relief from high prices. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker sees a "reasonable prospect" that inflation may drop from the current 18% to about 10% before the end of the year. Then he quickly adds, "But that can only be a first step, and in some ways the easiest step, on the road to price stability." The last miles on the road back from inflation are sure to be the toughest ones...
...applied for 2,000 lifeguard, clerk, bathhouse attendant and other such jobs paying $145-$178 a week. Though Atlanta's Six Flags Over Georgia amusement park will provide 3,500 vacation jobs, 70% of the young people in the area are expected to be without work. Chicago experts predict youth unemployment will be higher than at any time since the 1973-75 recession...
...painted Gustave Coquiot, a fashionable Paris art and theater columnist, as a sinister god of urban pleasure, green shadows straining against red lips in a pale mask of a face. Some of the women, their faces blurred by laughter or squinched up into pug masks of greed, seem to predict by ten years the jittery misogyny of German expressionism. Woman in Blue, 1901, with her fierce little Aubrey Beardsley whore's head surmounting the dress of a Velázquez court portrait, is an especially compelling example...
Harvard University , one can safely predict, will outlast us all. Without a doubt, it will remain an institutional oddity: debates about social responsibility, the relationship with Cambridge, the quality of the undergraduate education and the role of sports seem destined to persist perhaps longer than construction on the Red Line...
Though readers of Aesop's Fables might have been able to predict it, the outcome of this year's race for prime-time supremacy was, by most accounts, a stunning upset. CBS, which began the season last fall in third place among the three major networks, plodded along to a victory in the ratings over four-year champion ABC, whose jackrabbit programming shuffles fell flat. Final score: CBS, 19.6 Nielsen points for the seven-month period; ABC, 19.5; and NBC, in its first full season under Programming Whiz Fred Silverman, an embarrassing 17.4. "The victory went...