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Said Chief Economic Adviser Charles Schultze, speaking to the Communications Workers of America: "In the first two months of this year, unfortunately, inflation began to spill out into areas other than energy and housing, into the economy more broadly. It is a very, very dangerous development." The nation, said Schultze, "will continually be wrestling" with high inflation throughout the 1980s. C.W.A. President Glenn Watts asserted that American workers for the next decade would have to accept wage boosts "at least 2½% lower" than the rise in prices, out of fear that larger increases in pay would prompt still more...
...says). He neither smokes nor drinks, drives himself to work in a 1973 Cadillac, and lists his phone number openly in the Dallas telephone directory. His taste in food is plain. Says one associate: "He is the kind of guy who will order chicken-fried steak and JellO, spill some on his tie, and then go out and buy all the silver in the world...
...they loved Bobby Barbash, the hotel emcee, who before the show each night sang, "After the Loving" and "I Did it My Way." He belted out those songs, imitating Dean Martin, every single night to rousing applause and a few wet eyes. Bobby could do not wrong--spill steaming coffee down Bertha's back, or worse, call the same bingo number twice in a row--the man in the wallpaper tuxedo was the perfect son who never left mother and sang to her every single night of her life...
...days later, Moser-Pröll took a spill on the steep upper portion of the shorter women's slalom in the first run and was eliminated. Hanni stayed upright and swept to her second gold by a commanding margin of nearly 1.5 sec. With two golds and a silver in the three alpine events, she matched the smashing performance of West Germany's Rosi Mittermaier in the 1976 Winter Games at Innsbruck...
Stenmark's preparations for the Olympics were derailed last September when he took a hair-raising spill at Val di Senales, Italy, while practicing the downhill, of all things. He suffered a brain concussion and was unable to resume snow training for several weeks. "I've never before started so late in the year," says he, "but I'm not worried." But after his disappointing performance at Innsbruck in 1976-he managed only a bronze in the giant slalom-Stenmark is wary of making medal predictions. "The margins of victory are so small and accidental occurrences...