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Although similar acts of repression have taken place in the past, their recent intensification has greatly reduced the number of new requests for exit visas. But if the Kremlin should relent, there are at least 130,000 pending applications that have not been granted...
After the orals, the professor refused to recommend anything higher than a cum. Other professors attempted to convince their colleague to relent...
...this week killed even the hope that Tiriac might still be a calculating competitor. Leading in the last match, Tiriac became enraged over a call and stalked off the court with his doubles partner. The other team seemed ready to play the point over, but the umpires wouldn't relent. They were given 30 seconds to return to the court. No show, and they forfeited the game. They were given 30 seconds to return or face losing the remaining games in the match. Tiriac sulked to moral victory as the Lobsters gave the match away on that walkout. Now their...
...week to gaze into the future prophesied that the boycott would trim at least 1% from their earlier forecasts of real growth. Harvard's Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources Inc., believes that the G.N.P. will increase by 1.6% instead of 2.6% next year, assuming that the Arabs relent by April 1. But Alan Greenspan says that even if the oil resumes its flow by then, the shortages will have already done enough to prevent the economy from growing that much next year. He looks for at best a 1% growth in the gross national product-and at worst...
Builders and real estate brokers, scratching for business, are resorting to some far-out tactics to keep on selling houses. Realtors in the Jean Burgdorff firm in Summit, N.J., have taken out personal loans, pledging their own assets as collateral, and then relent the money on short terms to would-be house buyers who could not get mortgage financing elsewhere. Witkin Homes in Denver guarantees buyers who balk at today's high interest rates that they can refinance their mortgages once within the next three years if rates drop. Homewood Corp. of Columbus will give a buyer free paint...