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Most of the nation's twelve major airlines are just beginning to pull out of the steepest nosedive in the industry's recent history, but one carrier has been cruising above the clouds all along. Delta Airlines earned $41 million last year and is doing almost as well...
...best insurance for skiing safety is sheer skill. For raw beginners, the accident rate is twelve injuries per thousand "skier-days." After a mere week of instruction, the rate drops to five injuries per thousand skier-days. Schussing at the highest speeds on the steepest trails, expert skiers (including women) have the fewest accidents-only three per thousand days. Hard-core skiers have an added incentive: the $300 or more they invest in equipment and lessons. When good skiers get hurt, they usually ask the examining doctor to please slit their expensive pants down the seam so they...
...takes an average of still another six to nine months more before reduced output -and increasing joblessness-begin to affect prices. *Last week the Commerce Department reported that in 1970 the nation's real output of goods and services fell by .5%, but prices rose 5.3%, the steepest one-year advance since 1951. Even so, Friedman tirelessly maintains that the momentum of inflation is slowing, because the annual rate of increase in the consumer price index declined from 6.3% during the first three months of 1970 to 5.8% during the second quarter and 4.2% in the third. During...
THOUGH prices are in their steepest climb in 18 years, Washington's economic seers have repeatedly insisted, as Nixon Adviser Herbert Stein said last week, that "we have turned a corner." Now, at last, there is confirmation of sorts in a group of economic telltales known as the "leading" indicators...
With those unspoken words, he left his room, went outside, and began to jog slowly up the steep hill, back to Route One. He looked at the base of the mountain (it was not a mountain, but he liked to call it that). The base was the steepest. It was, the boy thought, almost straight up for about thirty feet. There was nothing to hold onto--there was only the wet slippery clay, which three days before, in Southern California, had killed 11 people in a mudslide. The boy looked at this bank of clay, and then he began...