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...California ever adopts a new state flower," Poet Ernest McGaffey wrote in 1923, "the motor car is the logical blossom for the honor. Whether commercially or socially, whether from the standpoint of business or sport, it is the same, the whole same and nothing but the same. All hail rubber! All hail the automobile...
...number of authoritative Soviets have privately hinted that the troublesome and, from the American standpoint, un acceptable insistence on banning deployment of U.S. Euromissiles as part of a START agreement might eventually have been set aside if there had been progress on other issues in START. But there was none, partly because the American opening position was so objectionable to the Soviets, and was made even more so by the modifications of last year...
...number of authoritative Soviets have privately hinted that the troublesome and, from the American standpoint, un acceptable insistence on banning deployment of U.S. Euromissiles as part of a START agreement might eventually have been set aside if there had been progress on other issues in START. But there was none, partly because the American opening position was so objectionable to the Soviets, and was made even more so by the modifications of last year...
Wall Street shares that wary view. "Many housing stocks have not looked good from a growth and investment standpoint," says Dean Witter Analyst Alan Wapnick. "They've really gotten hammered." For example, the share price of U.S. Home, the largest American homebuilder, is down more than 60% from its 52-week high of 20¾ last May. An important reason for the decline, says Wapnick, is the prospect of higher interest rates...
...director of the semiotics department at Brown notes that this year he received several calls from English ad agencies looking to interview graduates in the next few years. Godvich also cites interest on behalf of the CIA, as well as other government agencies. And Blonsky in particular, from the standpoint of running one of the few companies in the country actively researching on a semiotic basis. Says not only has there been an increase of interest in companies, but also among of the government and the military...