Word: gettingness
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The nation's central bank denies that it is changing its policy course. It insists that the unprecedented free fall in interest rates is the predictable result of its success in getting a better grip on the money supply. Last fall, when Volcker switched tactics in the attack on...
A seat on the Chrysler board is a major milestone for the U.A.W., which organized auto-industry workers 45 years ago after a series of bloody picket-line battles with the major car companies. Nonetheless, Eraser's appointment has drawn little support from either corporate executives or other labor...
Ever since he presented his national energy plan in April 1977, Jimmy Carter has been arguing that coal is the fuel of the future for the U.S. The Saudi Arabia of coal, America sits atop 25% of the world's known reserves of the black rock. The President'...
Even with its huge losses, NBC is not getting much sympathy in broadcasting circles. The competition for the Moscow TV rights was an unseemly affair marked by double-dealing, broken promises, and the machinations of mysterious intermediaries. NBC finally won out by striking a bargain with the shadowy Bock, who...
Off-court, Abdul-Jabbar and his wife Habiba are getting divorced after seven years of separation. While he still has some connections with the Hanafi Muslims in Washington, D.C., he has rid himself of the house where seven of them were murdered in 1973. Once among the most reclusive of...