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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elation was justified. Since the talks began in Japan in 1973, explosive oil prices and recession have plagued many countries, and they have sought to protect their industries by raising all kinds of nontariff hurdles. Though world trade continued to expand, reaching an estimated $1.3 trillion last year, the rate of growth slowed, causing concern that the global economy would stagnate. Until about two years ago, when Robert Strauss arrived on the scene as the special U.S. representative, the trade talks were going nowhere. Strauss's closeness to President Carter gave him entree to top foreign leaders...
...earned about $9.75 an hour, will collect 800 more in the first year and 350 in each of the next two years, bringing them up to $11.25 per hour in 1981. They will also get an additional $1.09 for benefits, like health insurance. Assuming an average inflation rate of 6% over the next three years, as the Administration optimistically does, the cost of living payment would add another 830 and bring the total wage and benefit increase for the contract to $3.42 an hour...
About the only way that homosexuals could find companionship until a few years ago was in gay bars or cruising certain streets. (One result: the rate of alcoholism among homosexuals is estimated at 20% to 30%, three to four times the rate among all adult Americans.) Today Washington, D.C., has more than 80 homosexual organizations, and Boston, with 70. even has one for overweight lesbians...
...contemporary phenomenon. Since 1954 the famous sex-research duo have sold nearly 750,000 hard-cover copies of their five books, trained 7,000 sex therapists, observed more than 10,000 orgasms in their St. Louis lab, and treated 2,500 "sexually dysfunctional" couples, achieving a remarkable success rate of 80%. Along the way, they have become undisputed stars of a burgeoning sexual research industry, a fact acknowledged last year when the board of their Reproductive Biology Research Foundation finally persuaded them to change its name to the Masters and Johnson Institute...
...Homosexuals and heterosexuals they studied-all of them preselected for "sexual efficiency"-have about the same low rate of failure to reach orgasm...