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...Real personal income will stagnate as unemployment rises, the cost of living increases, and overtime work be comes rarer. The decline in income will cut painfully deep in regions heavily dependent on industries hit hard by the oil weapon, such as autos, steel and rubber...
...paper cutouts. In the foyers, no effort to mask and confuse the nobly strict curves of the roof ribs has been spared: one is met by a jumble of well-made but visually meaningless joinery, as if some gnome from the stingyback forests had gone berserk promoting the rarer Australian hardwoods...
...made by fragments larger than a grain of sand, and none did any detectable damage to the thinly shielded $50 million craft. By carefully planning Pioneer's trajectory, controllers kept the ship at least 4,000,000 miles from those larger (at least seven miles in diameter) and rarer asteroids that can be seen by telescope on earth. Said NASA's newly confident Dr. William Kinard: "We're firmly convinced that the asteroid belt presents little hazard for future spacecraft going to explore the outer planets...
...Thai government. At dawn, they left for Cairo on a special Thai International flight, accompanied by the two ranking Thai negotiators and by Essawi. The Egyptian diplomat, in a rare instance of Arab-Israeli cooperation, had clearly played a key role in saving the hostages' lives. Even rarer was the fact that the terrorists had listened to reason. The incident marked the first time that Black Septembrists had backed down...
California's peregrine falcons are rarer than giant condors. Only about a dozen of them have been sighted in the whole state. So when two fledglings hatched in a nest near the top of a sheer, 580-ft. rock on Morro Bay, neighborhood Bird Watchers Vernon Davy and his wife organized a round-the-clock vigil. But falconers, who want the birds for hunting, were also on the alert...