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...earnestness, Charles can sometimes walk in where even constables fear to tread. Last summer, visiting a London youth club, he encountered a clash between black demonstrators and the police...
...outlook for 1978 is not much better, despite government moves to salvage basic industries through nationalization, heavy subsidies and blatant protectionism against highly competitive imports. "The best that this will do is allow us to tread water," says Sven Grassman of Stockholm University's Institute of International Economic Studies. Other economists, including some in the government, reject as "rosy" and "naive" official forecasts of positive G.N.P. growth, 10% inflation and at least unchanged unemployment this year...
...rugged Taebaek Mountains, in the DMZ's eastern half, lynx and Korean tigers now roam where few soldiers ever tread. Even movements around the truce village of Panmunjom can be hazardous, not because of stray gunshots, but because a parade of plump pheasants may suddenly appear in the path of a passing Jeep. Says an American officer: "Those birds are so fat they have a hard time getting off the ground. I could set my limit in a day with just a slingshot...
...unacceptable. The five subcommittees Dean Rosovsky appointed last year have created a plan that would adversely, if indirectly, affect America's higher education system. In considering this important step, both faculty and students should bear in mind the considerable weight Harvard carries in social and academic circles, and tread carefully. While the Gen Ed system certainly merits revamping, the current Core proposal is not the answer...
...many of the 42 other smaller regional breweries, whose overall market share has been shrinking. Those embattled companies might adopt as their anthem the jingle composed by Irish Novelist Brian O'Nolan in praise of Guinness stout, a brew so syrupy that a well-fed mouse could safely tread across its creamy head...