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Automen meet with the President as sales continue to sink...
Interest rates are expected to sink still further, with the prime rate at perhaps 10% to 12% by year's end. This is due largely to the weakening economy. Alan Greenspan, former chief economist for President Ford, observes: "The U.S. has moved rapidly into a severe recession. The hopes that it would be mild and of short duration appear to be precisely that-hopes...
...bracing for an economic downturn as deep as any in the postwar period. They consequently see no need to borrow funds at the still relatively high rates so as to expand capacity or hire new workers. General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones predicts that the prime rate will sink to 12% or 13% before investment picks up. Explains Gilbert Heebner, chief economist at the Philadelphia National Bank: "It was like 20% was some magic threshold. Borrowers simply stopped borrowing. Even small independent businessmen like farmers chose to liquidate their crops rather than borrow money...
...singles player Don Pompan, with the MCAT's far behind him, started things off with a 6-7, 6-3, 6-0 trouncing of Scott Diehl. The Bruin's number one relied on a blistering serve to upset Pompan in the first set, but then watched his game sink into obscurity for the rest of the match...
...which demented, misguided youths have ever forced you to watch. This is every sex-and-death dime novel you've frantically glanced over in the back section of the corner magazine stand. Imagine them all together and they can't begin to plumb the depths to which the Cramps sink...