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...Carter can build a public groundswell for Stage 2, labor and business, for all their misgivings, may feel forced to observe the guidelines, and if the wage-price spiral can be slowed, the Government will get more time to chop away at the budget deficit. But even if a socko TV speech gets the program off to a good start, the President will face the tough task of maintaining public, labor and business confidence -and imposing unpleasantly stringent spending discipline on his own Administration-for what at best will be a long, long haul...
Cheever's own story has had some harrowing moments, but the hero seems to have come through handsomely. After a serious heart attack five years ago, he underwent a rigorous cure for alcoholism. He speaks candidly of the downward spiral his life had taken and of the connection between writing and drinking. "If you are an artist," he says, "self-destruction is quite expected of you. Orphic myths popped up early, showing singers being torn apart by Harpies to the infinite satisfaction of society. The thrill of staring into the abyss is exciting until it becomes...
...shape and pulls off large amounts of gases. As the particles of gas spiral inward, or biting the black hole in ever tighter circles before entering the event horizon, they collide, compress and heat up. Temperatures within this so-called accretion disk of gases surrounding the black hole reach 10 million degrees C, sending streams of intense X rays into space...
...Xerox near Los Angeles, and they jointly earn $48,000. They take frequent "little jaunts" to San Diego, San Francisco and Las Vegas and a longer holiday in the East once a year. Recently, they bought a new second car; they rent an expensive two-bedroom duplex complete with spiral staircase and a swimming pool for residents of the complex. "Fay is the fiscal conservative," says Sam. "She gets uptight if the bills on our credit cards total more than $1,200. We live a comfortable life -our parents wanted us to have what they did not have...
...that it would scale back an anticipated 7% price increase set for July to a flat 3%. Moreover, the company pledged to forgo any additional price hikes this year if the President's anti-inflation strategy of voluntary cooperation from industry and labor begins to slow the alarming spiral in the cost of living...