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Increased sexual activity has probably caused the recent rise in public lice infection incidents, Norins sniggered. In addition, public lice are now in the more rapid growth portion of a twenty year cycle, Fiumara said...
Thus many economists, mostly Democrats, argue that the economy today has enough unused capacity that it can grow faster without risking more inflation. Consumer and corporate demand is not so strong that more rapid growth would generate a significantly faster rise in prices over the next couple of years. Virtually all of the present inflation is caused by rising costs of raw materials and labor. Indeed, some members of TIME'S Board of Economists believe that consumer prices will go up by 5½ to 6% next year, regardless of whether fiscal policy is somewhat more or somewhat less...
...informal presentation at Dunster House last night, A. Whitney Ellsworth '58, who became the national chairman last month, discussed the rapid expansion of Amnesty International in the United States in recent years. The organization was founded in 1961 but remained small and ineffective until the members initiated "a new lease on life" in 1971, Ellsworth said...
...priest who had presided at the Fadgens' 1972 marriage. When a Pittsburgh court found in Fadgen's favor, Lenkner appealed. The state supreme court, in a 3-to-2 decision this month, avowed that it holds "the institution of marriage in the highest regard," but added that "rapid legal and societal changes" had made the right to sue for criminal conversation an anachronism. The Fadgens, meanwhile, have split up, and Lenkner has quit the church. George and Bonnie are now married and living in York, Pa., where he is a social worker...
...grant the urgent request, but will probably impose stringent conditions under which the Callaghan government will have to run the economy. Earlier this year the Group of Ten (industrial nations) had set up a credit line of $5.3 billion for Britain to be used as a weapon against the rapid deterioration of what was at one time the world's mightiest and proudest currency. About $1.23 billion of that total already borrowed by Britain must be paid back by December. Part of the debt will have to be paid with the new loan applied for last week...