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...nation's real output of goods and services has declined for the past nine months; the drop is expected to continue at least until mid-1975, thus marking one of the longest slides since the Great Depression. Last week, with the election over, the White House ended its verbal contortions and permitted Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen to concede what most non-Government experts already knew: the U.S. is now in a recession. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, added that the economy had stood up fairly well until late September, but "some...
...individuals who are unable to express aggression except in an explosive manner. They kill a loved one or an acquaintance against their own conscience. The presence of a gun is the critical variable in this type of homicide. In the absence of firearms, aggressive explosions end quickly, causing only verbal or physical assaults...
Counting Dollars. After the fight, sporting a bloodshot right eye but no other signs of wear and tear, Ali launched his customary volley of verbal jabs. "I told you I was the greatest," he gloated. "I told you this man has no class, no skill, doesn't hit hard. Don't ever match no bull against a master boxer. The bull is stronger but the matador is smarter." Ali did admit that Foreman had stunned him a few times. "I'm experienced," he said. "I can handle that." For his part, a shell-shocked Foreman said quietly...
...forced to use the language very much." Says Robert Hosman, chairman of the University of Miami's English department: "The fundamentals are not being taught properly in secondary schools. The SAT [Scholastic Aptitude Test] and College Board scores across the country have shown a considerable lowering of verbal ability." In fact, the College Board has devised a written English test to help colleges place freshmen in the appropriate class. Some 425,000 high school students took the new 50-question test-along with their entrance exams-for the first time last week...
...writers take "sabbaticals" to soil their hands and find out what it's really like; reporters loiter nervously in bars in Queens waiting for something to be said so they can sneak outside and put it in their notebooks; sociologists write about it from the outside. But except for verbal records like those collected by Studs Terkel, or stuff like Nate Shaw's All God's Dangers, you just can't get no genuine working-class lit in the U.S.A...