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Although it is still the strongest major Western European nation, West Germany faces an unemployment rate that hovers around 4%-disturbingly high for a country that four years ago was importing labor and still has 1.9 million foreign workers. Federal government economists have scaled down Schmidt's confident prediction...
Conceivably, the American League championship will be settled by the five games the Yankees and the Red Sox play against each other come September. Conceivably, the Yankees will win easily. Conceivably, Baltimore will sneak home first. (My own prediction is for the Yankees to clinch the division championship in Toronto...
It was a difficult task for the Carter men, because the President's reasons for scuttling the rebate were primarily political rather than economic. The rebate faced strong opposition on Capitol Hill since many Congressmen doubted it would be effective, and Carter chose not to fight for it at...
In The Greening of America, Charles Reich offered the giddy prediction that the values of the 1960s counterculture would remake America. Although his thesis was vastly overstated, those values are indeed becoming widespread. In 1974, Pollster Daniel Yankelovich reported that America's noncollege youth were adopting the counterculture values...
These words, spoken last week by Frank Press, echo statements that he has been making for nearly two decades as an adviser to Government agencies on subjects ranging from space missions to earthquake prediction. As head of the department of earth and planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...