Word: runaways
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...better part of a year, President Jose Sarney of Brazil has taken a hard line on economic policy. His current goal: to combat runaway consumer spending, which threatens to boost imports and weaken Brazil's trade balance. To rein in the boom, Sarney last month raised taxes and increased prices on consumer items. Since then, labor leaders have demonstrated against Sarney, but the President has stood firm...
...this is the first volume that the legendary American history professor has produced that includes colored glossies of runaway servants described in colonial newspaper notices. And this is in addition to 51 tables and graphs, 20 maps and 34 portraits, documents and contemporary scenes...
...general, when universities enter the health-care arena, they spend only as much as they take in from participating employees, Benjamin said. Under plans being investigated, Harvard and other universities would not be "writing a blank check" for runaway nursing home costs, he said...
...race for lieutenant governor, linked by a 1966 constitutional amendment to the runaway gubernatorial contest, finds Democrat Evelyn F. Murphy in the happy position of shoo-in for being the first woman elected to Massachusetts statewide office...
...spirited grandmother" who moves in with her daughter's family in ABC's Life with Lucy. Elliott Gould, Ellen Burstyn and Wilford Brimley are among the other stars who will be heading TV homes this season. Pam Dawber (Mork and Mindy) becomes a roommate and surrogate parent for a runaway sibling in CBS's My Sister Sam. In ABC's Heart of the City, a police detective has himself transferred out of the SWAT unit so he can spend more time with his motherless children. And Starman, also on ABC, brings back the alien from John Carpenter...