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...Midwest, however, the heat and drought have had a mixed result. Commodity markets have been on a rollercoaster ride of boom and bust this year. Prices went into a tailspin last January, after the President announced the Soviet grain embargo. But reports of the drought began pushing them up again by the end of June. The market has also been helped by the timing of the Soviet decision to resume buying American grain on the last year of a five-year contract. It was announced last week that the Soviets will make an initial purchase of 100,000 metric tons...
...Republican leaders in Congress would fight for a $36 billion tax cut to take effect on Jan. 1. As a result of President Carter's economic policies, said Reagan, "production lines are being idled, factory gates are closing across the land, and housing construction has gone into a tailspin...
...drop into a free-fall plunge as it did after the oil-price shocks of 1973 and 1974. For the most part, the members of TIME'S Board of Economists predict a moderately deeper recession than envisioned in their earlier forecasts of September; but they foresee no economic tailspin, in part because the strength of spending and borrowing has exceeded even their most extreme expectations...
...sound track. That narration-alternately sensitive, psychopathic, literary, gung-ho and antiwar-is self-contradictory and often at odds with Willard's behavior. It does not establish the protagonist as a credible figure or begin to achieve Coppola's loftier goal of charting Willard's tailspin into psychological terror. Eventually, the voice-over commentary becomes a makeshift panacea for the film's many other defects: it hastily clarifies plot points and states themes that Coppola has uncharacteristically failed to develop through action, dialogue and pictures. This strategy is as hopeless as trying to glue together...
...ranging from Dow Chemical's 40% reduction in energy use to Colgate-Palmolive's 18% cutback to show that many companies have continued to expand while saving energy. The examples are impressive. Nonetheless, there is a critical point at which sizable reductions in energy could provoke a tailspin in U.S. industrial expansion...