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...families with dependent children have been cut three times this year (to about $450 a month for a mother and three minors), but last year Michigan ranked second in the nation in such payments after California. The auto, which transported Michigan's economy to affluence, has helped to stall it. The industry, which sold 9.3 million vehicles in 1978, will sell only about 6.2 million this year. Last week brought more bad news. General Motors reported that its sales for the second ten days of November (a total of 89,707) were down 33% from the same period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Times in the Heartland | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...earnest when American and Soviet negotiators sit down in Geneva next week to talk missiles. Our side will point to the overhead scoreboard and insist that we cannot help deploving more intermediate-range weapons unless the Soviets cut back. Team Moscow will haul out the old launchers-versus-warheads stall offense, arguing that parity already exists and that Washington is the culprit behind continuing NATO-Warsaw Pact tension. Grandstand experts will keep track of SS-20s and Pershing 2s: Time magazine will run charts showing cartoon missilemen arm wrestling or playing hop-scotch--one wearing Uncle...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Strategic Objectives | 11/25/1981 | See Source »

...time if you're only passing through, drop in on The Four Corners for a real UNC experience. As you know, Carolina country is ACC basketball country and ACC basketball is the big time. It's The Four Corners, as in the Tar Heels' famous four corner stall offense, which has protected so many Dean Smith victories...

Author: By William A. Danoff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: In Tar Heel Country | 11/20/1981 | See Source »

...directors. Wasserstein and Perella told them that Mobil's offer of $85 a share was "grossly inadequate." Flom advised the directors that the offer raised serious antitrust questions. As a result, Marathon sued Mobil in Cleveland's federal district court and obtained a temporary restraining order to stall the takeover bid. Cheney and his staff arranged a satellite broadcast to television stations across the U.S. of Marathon's response to the Mobil offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Back | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...only a small band of hard-core "crazies," as they are called by many Israelis, will hold out until the end, and that his troops can handle the situation. Prime Minister Menachem Begin himself has said nothing, which some people in Yamit interpret as a signal that he may stall on the withdrawal. Indeed, there is a growing belief among many observers that some officials are quietly encouraging the protesters. Meanwhile, however, about 90% of Yamit's residents have accepted cash compensation for their property, which in some instances has been as high as $2 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging In | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

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