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...past month, Portugal and New Zealand, as well as France, have tried to attack inflation directly by imposing controls on wages, prices or both. Though attractive in principle, such policies are difficult to administer in practice. To make them work, governments must monitor hundreds of thousands of wage and price decisions. Moreover, past experience with controls, including the wage-price freeze imposed by President Nixon in 1971, shows that inflation returns once the restrictions are lifted. Says Economist Clifford Hardin, who was a member of the Cost of Living Council that oversaw Nixon's freeze: "Wage and price controls...
Officials are meanwhile pursuing Dr Eugene Sherry, the third defendant whose family lives in New Zealand Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Michael Taft said yesterday that probation officers are holding the doctor's passport adding that an extradition treaty between the United States and New Zealand could be used to return Sherry to Boston if he flees here...
...ruling organization, expanded the number of qualifying first-round teams from 16 to 24. The soccer heavyweights complained. The inclusion of nations such as El Salvador, Northern Ireland and Algeria would merely prolong the first round, they muttered privately. Teams like Cameroon and Kuwait would bore the fans. New Zealand and Honduras would increase the probability that stars like Argentina's sensational Diego Maradona, Brazil's Zico and Germany's Karl-Heinz Rummenigge would suffer injuries...
Earlier in the day, New Zealand Russell Simpson stunned American Chip Hooper, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3, 6-7, 11-9, completing and artillery battle that began Saturday and proved to be the longest match of this year's tournament...
Roberts has thrived at Harvard and speaks glowingly of the opportunities the College has presented him. His peers call him a man gifted with happiness and marked for success. He says he's happy here but eager to play rugby in Australia and New Zealand this summer and then take on Hollywood in the fall...