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...Tis the season to be jolly. There is little doubt about it. This year has been one of unexpectedly vigorous growth, declining unemployment and low inflation. And TIME's Board of Economists, which met last week in Manhattan, sees business remaining strong next year, while the jobless rate continues to fall and prices inch up only slightly. With an eye toward next year's presidential campaign, Otto Eckstein, chairman of Data Resources, a Lexington, Mass., economic consulting firm, concluded: "The 1984 outlook is very nice, at least for a Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Running Recovery | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

...Bull, at length settling himself down upon his horn, begged his pardon for incommoding him, "but if," says he, "my weight at all inconveniences you, pray say so and I will be off in a moment." "Oh, never trouble your hand about that," says the Bull, "for 'tis all to me whether you go or stay; and, to say the truth. I did not know you were there...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Yale hates Harvard; Harvard doesn't care | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...Tis the most distrustful country That ever yet was seen! They're hanging men and women For the wearing of the green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News 1930: India: Declaration of Independence | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Last year, while 25 million people acquired leased phones, only 5 million purchased them. Now the confluence of Government-ordered deregulation and the breakup of AT&Tis changing all that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dial M for Money | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...boys and little white girls and walk together as sister and brothers. "History would also see a reestablishment of the original idea of the American republic. "This will be the day." King continued, "when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning. "My country 'tis of Thee, sweet land of liberty, of Thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.'" The key words of many of Martin Luther King's speeches were taken from the vocabulary of America's Revolutionary War. As with...

Author: By Archie C. Epps iii, | Title: Martin Luther King And His Times | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

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