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Slower growth, in Jorgenson's view, will cut into tax revenues and increase Government budget deficits, which will continue to stoke inflation. Moreover, anything that raises energy prices, including President Carter's proposed combination of increased oil taxes and conservation measures, will only make investment in capital less attractive and inflation worse...
Usery typically begins a negotiation with an unabashedly patriotic appeal to both sides about the moral obligations of making collective bargaining work. If the parties seem particularly antagonistic, Usery will stoke up his meerschaum pipe and keep everyone together for a session of stories and jokes. "We might spend an entire day talking about women," he says. "It isn't bargaining, but it's something everyone can agree...
...four hours a day, concentrating on melting off every ounce of "Sub-Q-Fat"-their abbreviation for subcutaneous fat. That struggle continues through the season as wrestlers work to make their weight division before each match. Frequently they go without food for 18 hours before weigh-in, then stoke up in the five hours between weigh-in and match...
...disillusioned hippies seem a likely target, C.O.G. evangelists are preaching a sexual-freedom line unusual for the Jesus movement. Masturbation and premarital sex, for example, are now only sinful if indulged in "too much," like "hiking, swimming or exercising too much." Polygamy is also condoned, though not recommended. In Stoke-on-Trent, C.O.G. pitchmen greet the uninitiated temptingly: "Want to read something sexy, something that'll turn you on?" Elsewhere, they take a different line: recent C.O.G. immigrants to France, where their name is les Enfants de Dieu, have taken Berg's advice to woo Roman Catholics, whom...
Blessing Plan. Ike has done it again: taken in another $20,000 or so to stoke up his flourishing evangelistic operation. He claims 1,400,000 followers, to whom he sends a weekly newsletter and a full-color monthly magazine relentlessly pitching his "Blessing Plan" ("Pledge at least $100!"). He does radio broadcasts on 80 American stations and occasional television specials. Almost every week he conducts live services somewhere...