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...high economic growth. The 53 recessions and depressions that had afflicted U.S. capitalism's previous 165 years were a part of history, they figured, much like the Black Death. This optimism came crashing down during the 1970s, a victim of excessive demand by Government and consumers and a sixteenfold increase in OPEC oil prices...
...cooks are also spending vast amounts on the steel, plastic, wire and wooden twiddlybits with which to turn their foodstuffs into ambrosial dinners. Zabar's, a Manhattan shop that stocks everything from French dry morels ($5.95 per oz.) to a $1,000 espresso-cappuccino machine, has increased its sales sixteenfold over the past dozen years. Says Co-Owner Murray Klein: "We have never seen such an explosion of food buying." Supermarkets from coast to coast now stock such onetime exotica as game pates, Beluga caviar, imported mustards, goat and sheep cheese, leeks, shallots, scallions, bean curd, pea pods, bok choy...
Since the amendments took effect on Feb. 19, bureaucrats have been inundated with demands for documents. Compared with the same period last year, requests have increased sixteenfold at the FBI. Altogether, the FBI, the CIA and the Internal Revenue Service have received more than 1,300 letters asking for information, mostly from people who want to know what files the Government is keeping on them...
...Logan Airport of a medical station linked with the main hospital for television diagnosis. He also had a humane eye for detail: he ordered the old wooden benches in M.G.H. waiting areas thrown out and replaced with groups of comfortable chairs. In ten years he increased annual donations sixteenfold...
Hochtief seems to spell success in any language. War-torn Germany was a rebuilder's dream, and Hochtief's sales rose sixteenfold from...