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None of this poses the smallest threat to the system's solvency. No major bank failures are expected; banks will be able to meet their loan commitments, and the hundreds of billions of dollars that savers have deposited in them are in no danger what ever (see box). But many banks will be more careful in extending new loans, and so some consumers and businesses, especially those with less-than-top credit ratings, will be unable to borrow as much as they want. Indeed, for the banking system as a whole, the current troubles have brought a pause after...
...India, the year that the United States became the world's largest democracy. It was the year Kuwait surpassed the United States in per capita income and Italy beat France in per capita wine consumption. The year Exxon became the world's largest corporation and the Comoro Islands the smallest member of the U.N. It was the year everyone heard of South Molucca...
...last group--number two, actually--is the smallest. This is the charmed group that has the talent, intelligence and security to keep out of professional schools and off the Howard Johnson floor and make it in the sacred fields of art or academics...
Industry officials believe they also have gained sales at the expense of auto travel. The national 55-m.p.h. highway speed limit, they say, is just too slow for many salesmen. Even some of the smallest, least-expensive craft can cruise at 110 m.p.h.-while getting better than 20 miles to a gallon of fuel...
...Personal income climbed $12.7 billion in October, to an annual rate of just under $1.3 trillion. The increase was the smallest in three months. Even so, earnings of workers rose just about as much as prices between September and October, so the buying power of wage earners did not suffer...