Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week the scales seemed to be tipping in Connally's favor. Despite President Nixon's solemn campaign pledge to the contrary, the White House let it be known that it is considering seeking some sort of tax increase to slow the runaway pace of the economy. At the same time there were strong indications that the Administration will shift back to much sterner price controls, possibly within the next two weeks...
...third quarters, he predicts, real G.N.P. will rise a shade less than 1%. Corporate profits in 1974, he believes, will drop 3½% below 1973, in painful contrast to a 23% leap this year over 1972. Otto Eckstein elaborates on some of the reasons: housing construction is dropping, runaway auto sales are bound to fall, and a decline in retail sales is "inevitable...
When neither girl returned, their parents went to the police, but the police treated both disappearances as routine runaway cases. Although Mrs. Place told them the license number she had copied, there was a mix-up about where the car was registered. Months of inquiries passed before Mrs. Place finally managed to trace the Datsun to a small apartment house in Stuart, about 80 miles north of her home...
...Life. British, German and Japanese export models are being offered at no extra cost despite the devaluation of the dollar. They include a posthumous Yukio Mishima novel (Runaway Horses), the second volume of a tetralogy that began with Spring Snow; Nobel Prizewinner Heinrich Böll's Group Portrait with Lady, a study of private lives in Nazi Germany; and two of the best books ever done by Iris Murdoch and Doris Lessing. In The Black Prince, Murdoch has happily abandoned those platoons of characters for a manageable menage a six (or so). The result is an engaging exercise...
Signs of this economic runaway proliferate regularly. New ones last week...