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When House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Clement Zablocki of Wisconsin asked for a vote, all but one of his Democrats and even four committee Republicans said aye to this year's resolution to cap U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals at current levels. Last week's 27-to-9 vote endorsed a "mutual, verifiable freeze on testing, production and further deployment" of nuclear weapons. Passage this week by the full House seems likely...
Silverman said the slowing inflation rate in the local rental housing market will allow HRE to cap the increases at 8 percent. In each of the last two years, rents in the 11 buildings HRE operates for affiliates have jumped by 22 percent...
...proposal would add a few controls of its own. In hopes of satisfying those who think prices will rise, the plan would impose a floating price cap on some wellhead gas until 1986. Also, pipelines would need Government approval until then to pass along any hikes that outstrip inflation...
Blue-Jeans Giant Levi Strauss & Co. hoped to cap a decade of surging profits in 1980 by clothing the U.S. Olympic team for the Moscow Games. Not only did the American team pull out of the competition but the denim fad deflated at about the same time. The company's profits fell 43% in two years, to $126.6 million in 1982. Undeterred, Levi Strauss has won the job again and will be outfitting U.S. participants for their ceremonial appearances at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. The company will also provide uniforms for the staff and employees. All told, Levi...
...great artist is reborn at the hour of his death. His works cast a larger and more durable shadow than the man who wrote them. So it will prove with Thomas Lanier Williams, a.k.a. Tennessee, who choked to death in Manhattan last week (after swallowing the cap of a medicine bottle). With the debatable exception of Eugene O'Neill, he was the greatest playwright in U.S. dramatic history...