Word: seene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pushed into higher and higher tax brackets. White-collar workers and many professionals have suffered because they lack the means of organizing into special-interest lobbies to protect their paychecks. Corporate employees such as computer programmers and engineers have experienced a moderate loss in buying power, and librarians have seen the purchasing strength of their paychecks shrink by 11% since 1967, while college professors have had theirs shrivel...
Profligate people who splurged years ago on gold jewelry, diamonds, Persian rugs, antique furniture and fine art have seen their value steadily mount, while prudent savers who put their money in bank accounts or U.S. Savings Bonds have taken a beating. Every $100 invested in U.S. Savings Bonds ten years ago is worth only...
...quintupled in 1973-74. The result will be "a scissors movement"-Europe's economies will move up, while U.S. growth declines in 1979. This metaphorical prediction, from the 24-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, is one of the most optimistic forecasts that the Old World has seen in years...
There is a general feeling of revival in Western Europe, even though forecast growth rates remain well below those seen before the oil embargo. In West Germany it is spurred by Europe's strongest economy; in France by a determined shift away from government regulation toward private enterprise; in Italy by a still troubled but convalescing economy...
Ironically, the series' most visible characters, Shatner and Nimoy, have succeeded at maintaining parallel careers. Shatner stays active in summer stock and makes $5,000 plus for an appearance at a Star Trek convention. Leonard Nimoy, who can currently be seen as the sinister psychologist in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, will soon take to the road with Vincent, a one-man show based on the life of Van Gogh. Both actors are puzzled by the Star Trek phenomenon. "Frankly, I can't get a grip on what has happened," says Shatner...