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...stretches of time between alarms provide a complement to periods of intensity. Firefighting has an important social aspect. The men have to work closely together, as fighting a fire is a tactical operation requiring precise organization and teamwork. Thus the men have to learn to depend on and trust one another, and the time spent living together during their shifts in the firehouse helps to provide the camaraderie that makes this possible...
Time is not in his favor. As he grows and learns to love and depend on Madame Rosa, she grows older too. And her age does more than increase her love, it also saps her strength and undermines her health. Her weakness makes her still more dependent on Momo, which further heightens his love for her. At the same time it forces him to realize that someday soon she will die and there will be no one left who needs him or whom he will want to need, in turn...
...jobs being created at a hectic pace, and production, consumer sales and capital spending all quickening, business should move ahead fast through the spring and summer. But it will begin to falter in the autumn and probably remain sluggish for much of 1979. The extent of the slowdown will depend on many, factors, notably Jimmy Carter's success-or failure-in fighting inflation. That is the forecast of TIME'S Board of Economists, which met last week...
...subject of an interview, Vlada Petric is as demanding and enthusiastic as he is when teaching. "I have an ending for your article," he says, suddenly, and waves his hands while composing his sentences. "I know the future of the film program at Harvard will depend on money," he begins. "Film Studies is an expensive medium which when approached in a scholarly way does not bring back profit. But there are dreams, dash-dash, even in academia, dot dot dot, that money cannot buy." His last sentence, he explains, is a pun of a '40s avant-garde film called Dreams...
...condition. At a state dinner, he pumped the hands of 300 guests; later he delivered a forceful speech denouncing the neutron bomb. For all of the speculation about the Soviet leader's medical status, the prospects for a Brezhnev visit to the U.S. later this year probably will depend more on the health of U.S.-Soviet relations...