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...level of inflation for the first quarter dropped to an annual rate of 9.6% from 13.2% in the final quarter of 1980. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the Producer Price Index for April, a precursor of consumer prices, rose at a 10% annual rate, down from the torrid 16.8% pace of the previous month...
...best evidence of the economy's vitality was the preliminary figure for the gross national product in the first quarter. Administration officials project an increase in the G.N.P. at an annualized rate of 5%. Although few forecasters expect the economy to maintain that relatively torrid pace throughout the year, Otto Eckstein, president of Data Resources, a business consulting firm, believes that the first quarter's results were a sign that the economy may slow down but will not contract this year. Says Eckstein: "I don't see any negative quarters...
...cruel amplification of sound -Broadway's sin against all musicals -robs some of the numbers of the sinewy, teasing subtlety that is an Ellington touchstone. Otherwise, the show is torrid, torchy and trig. -T.E.Kalem
...weeks members of the British Establishment had been squawking like chickens with a fox in their coop. The fox, of course, was Rupert Murdoch, the high-rolling Australian press lord, best known for his torrid tabloids. His purchase of the ailing Times of London (circ. 279,000) raised fears that he would vulgarize the staid 196-year-old newspaper with sex and sensation. But last week the din subsided. The reason: Murdoch, 49, named Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans to the top job at the venerable daily. Evans, 52, an esteemed journalist and a passionate campaigner for press freedom...
...goaltending is the key to this year's tournament, the Crimson mentor Rita Harder has an ace up her sleeve, freshman sensation Cheryl Tate. Despite never playing ice hockey before this year, Tate boasts a 2.68 goals allowed average and has been virtually unbeatable of late, with a torrid 1.49 GAA since exams...