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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...editorial in the Journal, by Somerville Journal editor Barbara Powers, opposed August's re-election for a second two-year term in favor of any one of the other three candidates. The editorial charges August with poor management of city finances, excessive taxation, and inability or unwillingness to communicate with his constituents...
...program will accept 50 applicants for the first term of next summer's session...
...industrialized world since July, as governments try to curb inflation. But the U.S. has been playing catch-up with European and Japanese rates. At present, U.S. interest levels are no higher than existing U.S. inflation rates; thus there is scant reason for money traders to buy dollar-denominated short-term securities, since they earn nothing. Other currencies are a better buy. For example, even though the West German prime rate of 7.75% is more than five percentage points lower than the U.S. prime, West German inflation is about one-third that of the U.S., so traders sell dollars...
Whatever the outcome, the Cuban affair not only casts still more doubt on the leadership of the Carter Administration but also raises a longer-term and more disturbing question about whether the Congress - recently so assertive about playing a bigger role in foreign policy - can help solve crises rather than manufacturing and aggravating them...
...becomes strong enough to stand alone, it might discard us. Before then, the Soviet Union might be driven into a genuine relaxation of tensions with us?if it has not first sought to break out of its isolation by a military assault on China. But whatever China's long-term policy, our medium-term interest was to cooperate, and to support its security against foreign pressures...