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...economic indicators, which seeks to predict future business trends, jumped 2.4% in September, the fourth consecutive monthly increase. Yet interest rates continue to rise like an incoming tide. Major banks last week hiked the rate they charge their best corporate customers another half point to 14.5%. That could easily snuff out any strong economic recovery, and it may mean that business reports for the fourth quarter of the year will be as bleak as those released last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Auto Industry Sees Red | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...even the rain and the freezing wind blowing off Lake Erie couldn't stop President Carter from jogging, or snuff the candles on Mayor George Voinovich's celebration of Clevelandism...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Journalists Flock to 'City of Forests' | 10/29/1980 | See Source »

...American midfielder Lauren Fuchs directed the Husky attack, as the forwards, led by Lorie McCollum who scored twice, peppered 22 shots toward Crimson goalie Betty Ippolito. But the UConn defense controlled the game, repeatedly converging on the ball to snuff out every Harvard drive...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Stickwomen Set Back in Opener, 3-0, By Nationally Ranked UConn Huskies | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

...have no empathy for the victims in Humanoids, Prom Night, or Friday the 13th-- dubbed by horror novelist Stephen King in a Phoenix interview as a "snuff movie," where the audience waits eagerly for 13 campers and counsellors to be gorily dispatched. The violence in these low-budget horror films signals a new irreverence for the human body: no longer a vessel for the mind or soul but for blood, bone, pus, intestine and anything else that can come spurting, splashing, oozing, or quivering out; a source of irridescent colors, strange and squashy textures, squishing and crunching sounds. Devising these...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...have no empathy for the victims in Humanoids, Prom Night, or Friday the 13th-- dubbed by horror novelist Stephen King in a Phoenix interview as a "snuff movie," where the audience waits eagerly for 13 campers and counsellors to be gorily dispatched. The violence in these low-budget horror films signals a new irreverence for the human body: no longer a vessel for the mind or soul but for blood, bone, pus, intestine and anything else that can come spurting, splashing, oozing, or quivering out; a source of irridescent colors, strange and squashy textures, squishing and crunching sounds. Devising these...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

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