Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...galloping epidemic of inflation jitters has spread through the economy in recent weeks. Public fears of runaway prices have been stirred by the recent leap in fuel, food and other living costs caused by the winter's bitter cold and crop-killing drought in the West. Businessmen and investors also worry about the back-to-back budget deficits (totaling $125 billion this year and in fiscal 1978) that President Carter has estimated as one result of his program to stimulate the economy. Irwin L. Kellner, vice president of Manufacturers Hanover Trust, fears a return to consistent double-digit inflation...
...interesting proposition--Joyce and Lenin in Zurich together in 1918--and Stoppard runs with it. Seeing Travesties is like getting on a runaway rollercoaster of one-liners, reminiscences and digressions. The play careens wonderfully through history and facts. John Wood, as the protagonist Henry Carr who knew Joyce and Lenin, is simply magnifificent; Stoppard wrote the play with him in mind. The other actors are at least competent, but dim in the light Wood casts. Although the serious theater-goer may say this isn't drama--too flashy, its characters lacking in depth--it is a fascinating and entertaining evening...
...director of the Office of Management and Budget, Thomas Bertram Lance, 45, is managing three of President Carter's top-priority projects: balancing the budget by 1980, reorganizing the bureaucracy and preventing runaway inflation. Last week, as Lance weighed the final revisions of the fiscal 1978 budget, TIME Correspondent Philip Taubman called on him and sent this report...
...match was far from a runaway. As odd-numbered matches were all played first, the match was actually tied, 2-2, after victories by Moore and Mleczko in the first and third seeds and setbacks in the number five and seven slots...
...Petersen (honorable mention to Jon Garrity), he was the runaway winner of the "Hard Luck Harry" Award, B.C.'s Paul Skid-played Nadia Comaneci in the cage, stopping almost everything in sight, and several shots that couldn't be seen...