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...lawyer for tenants, Saul Shapiro, said the central issue in yesterday's seven-hour hearing, which will resume Monday morning, was whether converting the four-story apartment to office use would worsen the city's housing shortage...
Morale among teachers is low and further budget cuts will only worsen the problem, Forster added. "We're stretched very thin; there's really very little left of the system," she said
...already suffering increasing economic upset from energy inflation, and now the malaise will worsen. According to Administration calculations, the cost of crude oil imported into the U.S., which last month averaged $25 per bbl., will rise to from $28 to $30. Several of the nation's most important OPEC suppliers, including Nigeria and Libya, are also among those that lifted their prices the most...
...Sunday, while the Iranians were still making preparations to release the first of the hostages, came a shocking announcement that promised only to worsen the crisis. Many of the remaining hostages, proclaimed a spokesman for the students, would now be tried for espionage in the Islamic Revolutionary Courts and "punished in accordance with the severity of their crimes." The Ayatullah himself later confirmed the scheme, adding that the trials would only be halted and the hostages let go if the U.S. returned the Shah. Warned a senior official of West Germany's foreign ministry when told of the threat: "With...
...Carter, he knew that the attack in Iran would inevitably worsen his "leadership" problem and make his quest for a second term more difficult. The circumstances required a restrained response and infinite patience; yet this very stance would reinforce the public's perception of the President as a poor leader. Carter must have recognized the potential damage to his candidacy, but concluded that he had little choice...