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Violent crime has had an even sharper increase. In the past 14 years, the rate of robberies has increased 255%, forcible rape 143%, aggravated assault 153% and murder 106% (see chart). Preliminary reports to the FBI this year show that the rate for violent crimes as well as property crimes like burglary is still sharply on the rise. Says a Chicago cop: "You just can't paint the picture...
Ironically, it is Carrie who looks like the old-fashioned girl. Her round face and soft brown eyes have a grave gentleness that might have prompted Beatrix Potter to call her "sweetly pretty." But Carrie has a mischievous grin, sharper, more biting than Debbie's ever was, and her demeanor is world-weary. A show business kid, Carrie knows all the steps but cannot quite catch life's tune. "Emotionally, I'm crippled," she likes to explain. "I have to catch up on myself...
...absence in Washington and Jamaica, Prime Minister Harold Wilson had little cause for cheer. As last week began, the pound fell to its lowest level ever against the currencies of all Britain's major trading partners, down a disastrous 24.9% from the Smithsonian Agreement level of 1971. Any sharper decline would give the nation's already soaring inflation rate of 30% an explosive new thrust. Labor Cabinet members were warring openly over economic policy and the Common Market referendum, and a rash of strikes had slashed output in the automobile, rubber, tractor, aerospace and shipbuilding industries. Hopes that...
...below its potential that for at least the next 18 months or so, a rekindling of inflation need not be feared. They are concerned about inflation from a different aspect: they believe that the savagery of the recession and the subsequent drop in demand should have forced a sharper slowdown in the rate of price increases than has, in fact, occurred. Businessmen, they suspect, are refusing to cut prices partly because they want to keep profit margins up, partly because they do not think that price cuts expand sales in a modern economy-even though they are supposed...
...same engulfing lyrical rhythms that were to characterize much of Clarke's earlier poetry; their sense of grace and music--especially when heard on recordings with Clarke's thick brogue--is perhaps the best this century has yet to offer, combining the rhythms of the symbolist tradition with the sharper forms of the imagists. When Fionn first learns that the two lovers have escaped, for instance. Clarke uses swift lines and the fierce play of light and dark to depict Fionn's tormented rage...