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...dessert one night, Cynthia B. ate a candy bar, two bags of cookies, an éclair, three sandwiches, crackers and dip, a jar of peanut butter and half a jar of jelly, raisins and berries, two slices of bread with cheese and mayonnaise, large pizza and four bowls of cereal. Then she made herself throw...
...result, Manley said, "(Mayor) Kevin White will have to dip into his campaign chest to finance the city of Boston...
...Vries' prophecies carry clout, in part because he has exhibited a phenomenal knack for predicting just about every rise and dip in the value of the dollar. De Vries has forecast U.S. balance of payments results so accurately that the Federal Reserve once launched an investigation to find out if some of its staffers were leaking the figures before the official publication date. All the Fed learned was that De Vries has a "secret formula" for calculating trade balances that he vows never to reveal...
While inflation has fallen back from the 18.2% annual rate hit last winter, TIME'S economists predicted that the rate of price increases would dip only to about 10% by the turn of the year or early in 1981, an alarmingly high base from which the economy will again begin growing. At best, the board predicted a 1981 year-end inflation rate of 9.4%. But any number of external shocks to the economy, such as big new oil-price jumps, a bad 1981 harvest or an excessively cold winter, could send prices leaping to far higher levels than that...
...that happening before early 1981 at the soonest. The cost of mortgages has fallen to 12% or so from last spring's peaks of as much as 16% in some states, but is starting to climb anew. This might result in a so-called double-dip recession or what Greenspan somewhat puckishly suggested might look like a "wobble-u," or "inebriated L," if laid out in a graph...