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...devaluation of the dollar and the rising strength of the producers of food, energy and raw materials have resulted in a reduction in the standard of living of the average American. Inflation is politically the most convenient and economically the slowest mechanism to deal with this painful process. Having chosen this route through political inaction, we will have to live with inflation until the adjustment has run its course...
Tetirick is fortunate to have a high-quality snapper in Brian Hehir, and "the smoothest holder in the college ranks, Jimmy Stoeckel," Correia says. I have timed the [New England] Pats at 1.5 seconds from snap to impact, while the slowest Harvard does is 1.3 seconds...
...represented by his new recording with the Chicago of the Ninth Symphony (London) is significantly deeper and technically nearer perfection than the Beethoven he recorded more than ten years ago with the Vienna Philharmonic. This week London issues his Parsifal. Serene, mystical, glowingly colored and, by the way, the slowest in stereo, it is a pantheonic accomplishment he could not have matched a decade...
...writhing male dancers. They then form a single circle of life, and voilà it is genesis time. Nijinsky is given life and immediately departs for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, which represents earthly paradise. Thereafter, the graceful and the grotesque prance the stage in some of the longest, slowest processionals since Catherine de Medici introduced ballet spectacle to the court of France in the late 16th century. Nymphs, whores and clowns flutter merrily about. Morality figures of death and madness strut menacingly. The serpent, dressed in a red flapperesque wig and pelvis-pinching tights, snakes sneakily around her victims...
...Engine. On the other side, businessmen maintain that, far from being too steep, the rate of profit gain in the current economic recovery is low by past standards. Earnings have rebounded by only 18% in the past year and a half-the slowest comeback, by most measures, that has followed any recent U.S. recession. Average after-tax profit margins are today running at about 5% of sales, whereas they hit 7% during the boom years...