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Which leaves the second possibility--that the undecideds will divide up pretty evenly between the two major candidates, giving Wyman only a slight edge, but just enough to win the seat. Durkin is very much past his peak, the machinations in Washington simply did not make him look good, and the chances of him winning are very small. Which means that Louis Wyman will finally win a long desired promotion to the upper house, and will have to bring his campaign against "the forces of big labor" to the U.S. Senate...
...Harvard people into 13 types, designated by letters. There was W, for wheel, which meant an ambitious, driving type, and X, for cross-country, which meant a plodding but determined type, and so on. They were all Harvard men if they were admitted, you understand, but there were still slight variations...
...quake-prone Hollister area. His figures, Johnston told his colleagues, showed that the strength of the local magnetic field had suddenly risen between two of the stations, then gradually subsided over a period of one week. Furthermore, the surface of the earth in the same area had undergone slight but noticeable changes in tilt. Those changes, he said, were just "the sort one would expect to see before a quake." John Healy, another USGS scientist, was even more emphatic. Johnston's data, he said, left little doubt that Hollister could expect a moderate earthquake of up to magnitude...
Indeed, the Ford Administration expects the August unemployment rate, which will be reported next week, to show at least a slight rise over July. Production just has not bounced back rapidly enough yet to reduce unemployment as swiftly as the figures have been showing; if the July jobless rate of 8.4% was a true measure, then the May peak of 9.2% probably was too high, a reflection of the difficulty of statistically accounting for students entering the job market. The decline in the unemployment rate after August is expected to be painfully slow and to remain at or near...
...reduced to 14,800 from a February peak of 35,000. He added: "We hope to get it down to zero as soon as the market recovers. Most will be back by next year." To economists in Michigan, that was industry pep talk. They note that Michigan's slight July improvement in unemployment (down to 14.2% from 15% in June) was due in part to youths who stopped looking for work and thus were not counted among the unemployed...