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...restaurant worker, and my shift is from early morning to afternoon. In good weather I ride a bike for the mile-and-a-half trip through Cambridge to Harvard Square; when it's cold I either take a cab or walk. I enjoy walking and feel safer walking alone in the winter. When I'm wearing my old, bulky down jacket and stocking cap, my form disguised, I feel unprovocative...
Fearful that inflation will continue and prices will keep falling, many once traditional bond buyers are investing elsewhere. Pension funds and insurance companies are putting more of their millions in the stock market; retirees, widows and other coupon clippers are switching into the safer and high-yielding money market funds, which pay about...
...message to American voters than to the Kremlin: Carter can appear to take a hard line against the U.S.S.R. and to bolster national defense through a relatively inexpensive information-gathering process. Draft registration is his placebo to soothe America's war fever; its numbers can't make us any safer, but can at least make us feel better...
...panel's report does not question the desirability of nuclear power in Massachusetts; it only attempts to make existing nuclear plants safer...
...News is suddenly the hot act on TV. Information programs are beginning to rival sitcoms, shoot-'em-ups and other fictive fare for viewers and advertising dollars. The top-rated show on television this season is CBS's 60 Minutes: the investigatory escapades of Rather and fellow Correspondents Wallace, Safer and Harry Reasoner are seen by some 40 million Americans each Sunday evening. A celebrity-studded version of 60 Minutes, ABC's 20-month-old magazine show 20/20, has outdrawn its Thursday-night entertainment competition...