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Auto sales, a mainstay of the economic expansion, weakened in the final 20 days of November. The Carter Administration, in its first year in office, displayed what often seemed to be a fumbling and unsure touch in dealing with the economy. For example, the President has vowed to shun wage-price controls or even guidelines but has yet to proclaim any strong anti-inflation policy. Indeed, he has taken several actions, including signing into law a huge increase in the minimum wage, that will raise prices...
...from peppers that may be the most effective deterrent of all. When sprayed on sheep, the hot sauce chills a coyote's appetite. One spraying can be effective for up to 28 days. But researchers admit to one obvious concern: coyotes might eventually learn to like, rather than shun, their lamb spray...
...Rightists are also attempting to link up with blue-collar and ethnic groups they used to shun. Typical is Mike Thompson, the publicist for Anita Bryant's successful campaign against the homosexual antidiscrimination ordinance in Dade County. On the basis of overlapping economic and life-style issues, he is putting together what he hopes will be a "new majority" of Republicans, blue-collar Democrats and Jewish voters. "We will bring together people who have never been politically involved before," he says, "and they will go on to work together for other issues and candidates...
Meanwhile the lone killer was forcing a huge city's young women to shun their usual dating places, to roll up their long hair, to travel only in groups. All this provided another painful reminder of a mass society's vulnerability to the whims and torments of the oddballs in its midst...
...Shun Labels. Among the Messianic Jews, however, proselytizing is part of the faith. Exactly what that faith is, though, is confusing to the outsider. Although the Messianic Jews hold to orthodox Christian doctrines such as the deity of Christ, which Judaism considers idolatry, they often shun labels like "convert" or "Christian." Some retain Jewish traditions like Saturday worship and the wearing of skullcaps, or call their leaders "rabbis" and their meeting places "synagogues." To Jewish leaders such as Tanenbaum, they are simply Christian evangelists masquerading as Jews to gain more converts. In any case, since the late 1960s, perhaps...