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...combination of on-court lion and off-court lamb soothed the Sixers' savage breasts. The team won 16 of its first 18 games under Cunningham and ran away with the Atlantic division of the Eastern Conference. Trade-me talk has diminished, and playing time-and scoring-is now more evenly distributed than under Shue. The top three scorers-McGinnis, Erving and Collins-are all averaging close to 20 points a game. A running team that likes to roughhouse its way to the basket, Philadelphia still often has trouble working set plays, although Cunningham has his men passing the ball...
Action of some sort is surely needed. The Government reported last week that wholesale prices in March rose at an annual rate of 7.4%-seemingly encouraging, since the February rate had been a staggering 14%. But the increase for the whole first quarter ran at an annual rate of 9.6%, within reach of the double-digit range that separates merely unacceptable from runaway inflation. G. William Miller, the new chairman of the Federal Re serve Board, projects that inflation for the year is likely to average 6.5% to 7%. a higher forecast than the Administration's official prediction...
Sales figures suggest that buyers are becoming more discriminating and value conscious. When General Motors in mid-March ran special sales contests, during which dealers pare prices, sales increased dramatically. While total new-car sales were down for the first six months of the 1978 model-year, sales of compact and subcompact cars increased by 13%. The star performer at General Motors last month was the boxy Chevette; its sales were up 84%, compared with a year ago. At Ford, Mustang sales rose 14%, while the new Fairmont is a stellar seller. Ford's lacocca puts himself...
...they ran away with...
Collectively, the nation's states and cities ran deficits in four of the first six years of the 1970s; the red ink in recession-struck 1975 totaled more than $6 billion. But last year states and localities rolled up an aggregate surplus of almost $14 billion. Jimmy Carter, in his January economic message, put the figure much higher: almost $30 billion, which, he said, was "a drag on the economy." Governors and state legislators, worried that Congress would use the figure as an excuse to cut federal aid, protest that Carter improperly counted $15 billion in "social insurance" funds...