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...that the consumer price index rose only a modest .4% in February, a smaller increase than in January. If rapid growth continues and prices climb, the Federal Reserve can be expected to push up interest rates. They might eventually go high enough to cause a repetition of the spiral of 1980-81, when the record cost of borrowing brought on the 1981-82 recession...
Nightline, which since last April has been the only hourlong news show on any commercial network, will be cut back to half an hour on Feb. 8, coincidentally Koppel's 44th birthday. At the hour length, ratings sagged. Says Koppel: "We were on a downward spiral." Often the show gave a topic too much time, or jumbled together unrelated segments, some of them less than urgently newsworthy. Admits Executive Producer William Lord: "By thinking larger, we diluted the focus of the show." The biggest roadblocks, however, were local ABC affiliates. When the show expanded, twelve stations dropped it outright...
Koppel spoke to executives of affiliates at a meeting in Dallas last week, and some 20 stations have pledged to pick up the new half-hour Nightline. The show's potential seems perhaps as sound as Koppel's. His view: "The spiral is going upward again...
...argued that taxes had to be raised to pay for the Viet Nam War, but Johnson would not hear of it. He later changed his mind and signed a tax-increase bill in 1968, but the delay was a costly mistake. Many economists believe it helped unleash the inflationary spiral that U.S. policymakers have been battling ever since...
...Wellman Twins," the twins Bluey and Greer have shared a game since childhood, called "getting bold." It is supposed to be a private covenant for a session of secrets and truth-telling, but they use the opportunity to regale each other with outrageous lies--tall tales which gradually spiral down to a compact center of truth. Bluey has been writing letters to a girl named Ivy, and hiding them in loose leaf binder. His sister Greer begins getting bold by revealing that she has read all the letters. Bluey responds that "Ivy's probably got maybe a brain tumor...