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...bellwether housing industry is once again poised for a painful plunge. As the nation's economy grew by a modest 1% between July and September, home building enjoyed a mild rebound from a steep drop it suffered last spring. But the new run-up in mortgage rates, which has pushed the cost of money to 14.5% in California and New York City, has left millions of home buyers anxiously waiting once again for the cost of money or the price of houses to come down. Says Merrill Butler, president of the National Association of Home Builders: "This...
Each college sets its own fees, and they are fairly steep. New York students will pay lona $92 per credit hour (or $828 for the nine-credit course on the Roman Empire), as against $30 at the University of Tennessee. Local colleges also assign each student to tutors who grade student essays and exams...
...well over a decade, the Dazhai production brigade in China's Shanxi province was the object of nothing less than a cult. The small, 40-family work unit, whose herculean labors were said to have produced astounding grain yields on steep hills, was held up as a model for all of rural China. LEARN FROM DAZHAI was the slogan that covered walls and farm buildings from northeastern Heilongjiang province to Yunnan in the southwest...
...steep economic downturn still continues. Figures released last week showed that the nation's business declined at an annual rate of 9.1% between April and June. And industrial production plunged 2.4% last month, matching May in the steepest such drop since January 1975, when the economy was struggling to climb out of the last recession...
Even so, the Carter Administration's priority, four months before the election, is now to slow the steep decline rather than to fight inflation. The Federal Reserve last week announced the end of the short-lived credit restraints imposed in March. The President plainly wants the public to perk up spending...