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...Lease, Steal. Why? One reason is that inflation tends to suck in im ports and to price U.S. products out of foreign markets. At the same time, fewer orders are coming from countries that suffer from economic contraction, notably Britain and France. Other trends that operate against...
Wallace is very accessible on his plane, holding press conferences while sitting sideways on an airplane seat and pausing between sentences to suck on an orange in which he had nibbled a small hole, or just wandering around chatting like it was Clayton, Alabama, and he was still running for State Representative...
...market is awash in a sea of doubt," said Vice President Robert T. Allen of the Manhattan firm of Shearson, Hammill. Along with the prospect of an economic slowdown because of the 10% income tax surcharge, there were worries over declining profits, falling interest rates (which help to suck investable funds back into bonds), and reduced business spending on expansion. With many big institutional traders sitting on the sidelines, trading volume slumped along with prices. On the final day of the week, transactions on the New York Stock Exchange sank to a four-month low of 8,390,000 shares...
Students in flowing black gowns about the shaded courtyards. White-thatched dons suck on their briars tutorials on Greek philosophy. Oxford or Cambridge? In fact, the scene is black Africa, where not far from the manicured quadrangles natives still live in baked mud huts. Relics from the years of empire, Africa's 26 colonial-rooted universities (total enrollment: 45,000) have survived independence unprepared and incapable of dealing with the problems of the continent, where the illiteracy rate is 70% and still rising...
...Leche's scores of thousands of members, the routine is neither difficult nor unfamiliar. Their rule: let the baby suck to start the milk flow; the more it wants and sucks, the more plentiful the flow will be. There are exceptions, as there have been throughout history, when wet nurses have been in demand: some women simply cannot breastfeed. La Leche tries to reassure such women so that they will not feel guilty. There is no point in making a cult of breast feeding,* and La Leche advocates it only for those who both can and want...