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...receives under $4000 for preparing two lecture courses and a seminar. Last year he sent applications all over the country for jobs in his or related fields. In his specialty, perhaps three positions opened up; he did not get a job. Employment prospects for next year look equally grim, and his one viable offer is a position as researcher for the Central Intelligence Agency...
...when phones began ringing in the homes of startled reporters all over Washington. Administration officials told the newsmen that they had better get to the White House for an important announcement at 9. The callers gave no hint of what it would be about. Promptly on the hour, a grim-faced Jimmy Carter strode into a briefing room, climbed onto the podium and read a terse statement: "The continuing decline in the exchange value of the dollar threatens economic progress at home and abroad, and the success of our anti-inflation program ... It is now necessary...
...grim week of strikes, slowdowns and lingering discontent...
...Shah's 59th birthday, 1,126 political prisoners were released, bringing the total to more than 2,700 over the past two months. Many of the former inmates immediately went to newspapers with grim tales of the tortures to which they had been subjected. Last week, for the first time, Iranians read about the horrors that much of the rest of the world already knew: the "Apollo machine," a chair in which prisoners were tied while their feet were slashed and they were tortured with electric shock; the "helmet," a metal apparatus designed to make the victim...
...Wojtyla's predecessor was not a Vatican bureaucrat but a pastor (Archbishop and Primate of Venice), one Curia prelate said, "If the last conclave gave a flunking grade to the Curia, this one extended it to the whole Italian hierarchy." Onlookers thought that some Italian prelates looked downcast, even grim, when Wojtyla made his first appearance on the balcony of the basilica. And when Genoa's Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, the front runner at the start of the conclave, was asked what he thought of John Paul II's inaugural message, delivered only half an hour earlier, he snapped peevishly...