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...more successful than the last. After the first devaluation, quite a few foreign producers were so eager to keep their share of the rich U.S. market that they did not raise their American prices but instead reduced profit margins. Now they do not have much profit left to bite into, and they will have to hike prices. Similarly, some American exports that did not experience an increase in sales after one price reduction may do better after two. Demand for such U.S. exports as coal and farm products is sensitive to prices. Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME...
Over the past couple of seasons Yale has stood a better chance of getting rat bite in the Arena locker room than of beating Harvard. Ironically, this year they have their best shot at downing the Crimson...
...debt-ridden parson, Alger did not have to invent his scenes of poverty. His happy endings may smack blandly of fantasy, but his harsh beginnings have the bite of realism. Like all Alger heroes, Frank Manton is first and last a survivor in a tough world - a world, Alger makes protestingly plain, of child labor, a world in which a wom an working as a seamstress might earn as little...
...brand Darwinian America as the villain, but in spite of himself all the dramatic evidence points to Beatrice herself. She pits a tough exterior against ghetto inertia, but Zindel is noncommital about the reasons for her vulnerability. She does deserve some sympathy, but his drooling pathos has taken the bite out of Beatrice's stiff upper lip and made it soggy...
...United Left leaders have been doing their best to promise as little as possible. Though Pompidou quietly ordered the government TV network to give Marchais a lot of exposure because "he frightens people," the Communist leader has been careful not to bite-or even bark. Speaking in soft, reassuring tones, Marchais has been telling French audiences that his Communists are not the party of the clenched fist but "the party of the outstretched hand." Pompidou can only worry how many that hand will reach...