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While OPEC becomes richer, the rest of the world will grow poorer. For example, suppose oil hits $30 before the end of next year. Instead of a projected balance of payments surplus in 1980, the U.S. could wind up with a deficit of $15 billion, further weakening the dollar.* Overall, the combined balance of payments deficit for all industrial nations would climb from this year's $16 billion to perhaps as much as $40 billion in 1980. Developing nations would be hurt worst, since many of them have no exports of real value to count on at all. Their...
Nowadays it is the other way round. The richer and more upper-class the undergraduates, the more prone they are to get themselves up on proletarian fancy dress-which, incidentally, can often be quite costly-and to cultivate a nondescript accent which might belong to anyone anywhere. This is part of the worldwide social revolution for which America has provided the musical accompaniment-rock-and the uniform-jeans...
...grew richer by buying and developing other properties, financed mostly by banks in Baton Rouge and New York. Several years ago he traded some land to the city in exchange for the Canal Place site. He got financing from New York and Iran's Bank Omran. After the Shah fell, Canizaro bought out the Iranians. Now he is negotiating with French financiers to become partners Already the first Canal Place building promises to return a profit of $1 5 million a year. Major tenants are moving in: South Central Bell, Brooks Brothers Coopers & Lybrand. For the next buildings, Canizaro...
...Every time I read about Harvard's huge endowment, I feel sick," Daniel Clinton, a city council candidate, says. Clinton, demanding a more active city response to Harvard policies, says the University is getting richer at the expense of Cambridge...
...world is richer in associations than in meanings, and it is the part of wisdom to distinguish between...