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Consumers are also likely to remain sluggish spenders because inflation and taxes are taking away such a large hunk of their incomes. The after-inflation real hourly earnings of Americans dropped by 5.6% during the first three months of 1980, the eighth straight quarter that price rises had got the better of paychecks. The tax bite is getting bigger too. Just when the economy is expected to start picking up, a $12.4 billion increase in Social Security taxes will take effect in January. This will raise the amount paid by a family of four earning $25,000 a year...
...skin of the abdomen. In a 1½-hour operation, two electrodes are led to the heart-one through veins to the right atrium, the other to the tip of the heart's ventricles. Unlike pacemakers, which give a steady stream of tiny electric prods to a sluggish heart, the defibrillator is programmed not to interfere with the heart's normal pattern. Rather, it responds only to severe aberrations in beat, and within 15 to 20 seconds administers a corrective shock (700 volts) that a conscious patient feels as a sharp tingle. If the heart does not resume...
...elevation reflects a compromise between the strong-willed Austin and a powerful shareholder, Robert W. Woodruff, 90, who bossed Coke from 1923 to 1955. Woodruff, who remains chairman of the finance committee, had apparently become disturbed by the company, which remains strong but faces some problems. These include a sluggish profit performance (sales were up by nearly 19% in the first half of 1980, but net income rose by only 7.1%) and a challenge in the domestic market from archcompetitor Pepsi-Cola; Pepsi now outsells Coke in supermarkets, although Coke leads in vending machine and fountain sales...
...most controversial concepts involves what he calls "creeping" or "sluggish" schizophrenia, which is said to show itself early in difficulties with parents and authority figures, and with stubborn "reformist tendencies...
Housing is also likely to remain very sluggish, despite the drop in mortgage rates from 17% to about 12½% over the past two months. Alan Greenspan, former chief economic adviser to President Ford, predicted that they will have to decline another 1% to 2% before there is a significant rebound in home sales...