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...process continues for some 10 million years, during which the clouds shrink to globes more than a million miles in diameter. At this point, temperatures...
...share from the OPEC countries that are raising prices 10%, will be harder hit. According to preliminary figures, the nine members of the European Economic Community will have to pay an extra $4 billion a year in fuel costs and will see their composite rate of growth in production shrink from 4% to 3.25%. The Japanese, who draw 37.4% of their oil from Saudi Arabia, were relieved. They believe their recovering economy can absorb the increase without suffering any serious cutback...
...liberals, the greatest allure of rebates is that they would put money immediately into the pockets of consumers but would not shrink federal revenues over the long run and cut into plans for social programs, as they believe a permanent tax cut would do. Okun, a senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution and once chief economic adviser to Lyndon Johnson, feels that a permanent cut would "paint Carter into a corner" before he has a chance to move on such other fronts as welfare reform and health insurance...
...issued Fiat stock and bonds. That will give the government of Libya-which was an Italian colony until the end of World War II-an immediate 10% ownership of Fiat, the world's fifth biggest automaker, and eventually perhaps 13%; the Agnelli family's controlling interest will shrink from 35% to 30%. Libyans will take two seats on Fiat's 15-man board of directors and one place on the five-man executive committee. That will be a blow to Italian pride, but the government in Rome, which must approve foreign investments, is likely to go along...
...periodic checkups had no detectable physical decline over periods ranging from three to 13 years. Nor are new emotional and mental disorders very likely in old age: true senility is uncommon, and only 1% of the elderly can expect to become demented. Says Comfort: "The human brain does not shrink, wilt, perish or deteriorate with age.* It normally continues to function well through as many as nine decades...