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The U.S. economy, which grew at an unexpectedly strong annual rate of 5% during the fourth quarter of 1980, is now beginning to show signs of a new decline. The index of leading economic indicators, a harbinger of business trends, slumped by .8% in December, the first decline since last...
The U.S. has also stepped up its use of alcohol as motor fuel. Gasohol is currently being marketed through some 10,000 service stations owned or supplied by Texaco, Mobil, Amoco, Phillips and a few smaller independent petroleum companies. It is unlikely, however, that Americans will turn to pure alcohol...
Such are the signs of a crime wave that is surging through southern Florida. Crime rates are continuing to climb nationwide: in 1979, according to FBI statistics, the overall rate of serious crime (murder, robbery, forcible rape and theft) jumped 9% over 1978, and for the first six months of...
Elsewhere, Republicans were carried to victory by the surging Reagan tide: in Pennsylvania, former Philadelphia District Attorney Arlen Specter edged out former Pittsburgh Mayor Peter Flaherty; in North Carolina, John East, a professor of political science at East Carolina State University and protégé of Republican Senator Jesse...
With the price of gold still surging-one day last week it rose $30.70 in New York, to $680 per oz.-companies are finding it profitable to crush even mountains of rock to extract the shiny metal. Homestake has been spending $270 per oz. to dig gold from a Lead...