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CANADA has so far weathered the economic storms better than most of the industrialized world because, as a major producer and exporter of oil, it benefited from the rapid rise in world prices. Yet now consumer demand is flagging, a rash of strikes is cutting into production and a slowdown in world trade has widened the country's balance of payments deficit from $425 million in 1973 to $1.8 billion today; some experts believe that it will hit $5 billion by year's end. Though the government still predicts a 4% gain in Canada's output...
...mining complement on board the Glomar Explorer. The engineers resented the fact that the mining technicians, rather than the captain, really ran the ship. That dispute moved quietly into the courts. The second scare came shortly before the Glomar Explorer put to sea to salvage the submarine. A rash of burglaries of Hughes' company offices scattered across the West culminated in the early morning of June 5, 1974, in a break-in of Hughes' two-story communications and storage center at 7000 Romaine Street in Los Angeles...
Bravo! A cover story that will probably cause a rash of derogatory letters from jealous housewives and the fans of Lawrence Welk, but one for which I express my admiration and thanks...
...remember leaving for Lawrence before noon, with my brother beside me--cradled in the car's flabby front seat. The pavement stretches bone dry in the morning sun, and the light skims the top of every rise. We've just quarreled and I feel like doing something rash, to vent my anger. My brother knows a lot about cars, and he has worked on this one, patching its brittle sides, but the mechanical parts are too worn for salvage. I shouldn't abuse it with him along...
...fishing and running his four-wheel drive over the dunes. Now, he runs a cottage colony in Wellfleet that stays open from the late spring to the early autumns. To relieve the boredom and loneliness, he paints and draws away the long January and February hours. Pete cautions anyone rash enough to think that staying in Wellfleet through the late fall and winter will not exact a cost. It does...