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...safe from the mindless spiral of violence
With the economy in a downward spiral of still uncertain depth, many consumers have decided to cut their losses. The '70s "me" decade, which expired in an orgy of spending last Christmas, has given way to more conservative buying patterns. With good reason. More Americans are unemployed, many others are doing without overtime pay, and inflation has eroded earnings...
Despite the repetitive routine of advising's death gasps, a House-life survey released this winter indicated a new perceived downward spiral in advising in the 1970s. Comparing the 1979 findings with two other housing life studies undertaken in 1973 and 1976, the survey report pinpointed a definite "decreasing satisfaction" with certain aspects of advising: "Not as many students in the 1979 study knew tutors by name or felt they knew them well enough to visit socially." The most desired improvement cited by students was "more opportunity for contact with senior faculty." more than 10 per cent said they knew...
Nothing better illustrates the difficulties of the security issue than the spiral of violence and counterviolence that has whiplashed the West Bank in recent weeks. A day after a Palestinian youth was shot and killed in a schoolyard scuffle with Israeli soldiers, Arab terrorists two weeks ago opened fire on a group of Jewish settlers returning from evening prayers in the city of Hebron, killing six and wounding 16. In retaliation, Israeli commandos last week staged two coastal raids into southern Lebanon. They ambushed a Jeep carrying four commandos of the Palestine Liberation Organization and killed four civilians in another...
...inflationary spiral accelerates because people feel they must "catch up" with inflation by frequent increases in wages and prices, he added...