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...week two of the three presidential candidates took a private rest down home with just a few hundred intimate friends and reporters. Jimmy Carter invited more than 100 kinsmen, journalists and neighbors to a back-country fish fry at his mother's Scandinavian-modern house in the dark slash-pine woods near his peanut fields in sweltering Plains, Ga. The homey cookout was called partly to ease an ecological imbalance in the family pond. As often happens in politics and ponds, the larger fish were gobbling up the smaller fry, making the fishing hole unhealthy...
...harassed recruit at San Diego was driven to such despair that he threatened suicide. The drill instructor obligingly instructed him on how to slash his wrists. The recruit's wounds, fortunately, were superficial...
Combined with the University's decision to slash next year's teaching fellow budget between 5 and 10 per cent, committee members fear that individual graduate students will receive fewer tutorials to teach. Tutorials are a major source of a graduate student's financial resources...
...watchword is austerity. To make ends meet, agencies have been forced to slash their staffs from an estimated 41,000 five years ago to 36,000 now. Advertising Age, the leading trade publication, found in a recent survey that 77 major agencies now average about four staffers for every $1 million in billings, the lowest ratio ever. In 1970, agencies generally had six employees for every $1 million in billings...
...argue that a successful intervention will break the back of the Arab oil monopoly, slash oil prices and thereby put an end to the current depression ravaging the world economy. Sactimonious protests aside, both the developed and Third World countries will accept this result with great--if covert--gratitude. Because, argues Tucker...