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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which comprises the world's 24 leading non-Communist nations, also issued a grim forecast, and on an even larger scale: a rise to $26 per bbl. would cut nearly 1% off its members' economic growth, reducing it to stagnation at best, and push OECD inflation up from an earlier projected 9% to at least 10%. Largely as a consequence of the oil increases, the organization now expects unemployment in its member nations to rise from just under 17 million to a full 20 million...
...simply blows one away. The trip into the black hole that follows owes too much to 2001, but there are some amusing visual references to Fantasia, which partly compensate. It is good to see the Disney craftsmen doing what they do best on such a grand and risky scale. If one has time for only one space opera this season, this is the one to choose. - Richard Schickel
People buy art for all reasons and with all incomes. Broadly, however, they fall into three categories: the amateur, who appreciates beautiful objects for their own sake; the investor, who is primarily intent on making money; and the rare great collector, who assembles treasures on the grand scale that enriches society. Three vignettes...
...herein amplified. Now heading toward 70, the man retains the rumpled character of a professor who has forgotten his socks-and perhaps his name. Yet Smiley misses no conversational nuance, no backstairs Whitehall intrigue. Because of a few previously overlooked clues, his final assignment rises to an Olympic-scale contest of Soviet and British will...
Burlington, Vt., uses wood chips to fire boilers in its municipally owned power plant. But doubts are rising about such large-scale woodburning. Huge chippers that swallow entire trees are used for harvesting; since they leave no small limbs to rot and replenish the forest, the practice can amount to mining the thin topsoil. "In 50 years," says one observer, "New England could look like Lebanon." President Nick Muller of Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., has another sort of woodburning in mind. He wants to build a $1.75 million central heating plant fueled by sawdust from nearby sawmills...