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Perhaps the sickest and most tired was Fred Silverman, 41, the president of NBC, who threw two of his biggest movies into that black hole called the sweeps. "It's tragic," he says. "We had two blockbusters, Cuckoo's Nest and American Graffiti, on the air in this February period, and yet we reached only 32% of the audience. That is absolutely crazy. But the alternative would have been to put ordinary movies in there, and the only people who would have looked at them would have been the people in my family...
Dede Dillon '79 said she began feeling ill early Monday morning, adding that during the day Monday she felt the sickest she had ever been. She said she was too ill to travel to UHS but did call them to describe her symptoms...
...delicate truce with his principal opposition has enabled Andreotti, a seasoned politician who has three tunes been Premier and was a minister in 16 governments, to crank out an intensive program of austerity measures-including stiffer tariffs, higher government-controlled prices, and proposed wage restraints-aimed at curing the sickest partner in the European Common Market. Italy's current inflation rate is 18%, its internal deficit is estimated at $20 billion, and its foreign trade deficit has doubled in only a year, to $4.4 billion. So weak is the lira that it has to be supported...
BRITAIN, with its faltering production, oppressive rate of inflation, high unemployment (5.5%) and staggering debt, remains one of Western Europe's sickest economies. The value of the pound has plummeted to historic lows, going from $2.03 in January to $1.68 last week, despite the ruling Labor Party's vigorous efforts to hold down wages and increase output and exports. After the latest currency crisis in September, Whitehall was forced to ask the International Monetary Fund for a $3.9 billion loan. If approved, the loan is likely to be accompanied by strict requirements that Britain hold down its money...
More Money. Recent polls show a marked rise in consumer confidence, and because he has both new optimism and more money, the consumer is beginning to spend strongly. One consequence is that even the two sickest major industries-autos and housing-are reflecting the first faint blush of recovery. Housing starts rose 14% from April to May. Auto sales climbed 5% from the first three weeks in May to the equivalent period in June, though they usually decline during that span...