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...Yule logs burn longest when soaked overnight in a mixture of 50 percent Karo syrup and 50 percent baking soda...
Massachusetts has six of the twelve county courts in the country with the longest delay before a case comes to trial, the report said. The backlog of criminal cases in the Superior Court has reached 35,000 cases...
Anthony Flagg's Diary of the New Deal Years is engrossing for different reasons. The longest segment of the book, it painstakingly details a radical braintruster's reactions to the gradual development and stultification of the New Deal, and then America's cautious steps from isolationism to World War II. It is a stunningly realized picture of a brilliant, politically calculating President whose chief skill resides in getting all his various staffers, each in his own way, to serve his turn...
...President's style, though, contrasts sharply with that of his dour, ponderously rhetorical predecessor. Tall, barrel-chested and robustly athletic, López Portillo flashes ear-to-ear grins and laces his refreshingly brief speeches with humor. His inaugural address will probably be the longest oration of his life. He enjoys soccer or boxing as much as talk of public administration, economics or Mexican mythology. His writings include studies of both legal theory and Mexico's legendary god-king Quetzalcoatl...
...reason for the declines is somewhat ominous: business loan demand is still weak. Between January 1975 and last September, the volume of business loans made by major New York banks fell 21%, the largest and longest-lasting drop since the 1930s. The Government estimates that real capital spending -business outlays for new plant and equipment, discounted for inflation -this year will be only 2.5% higher than in 1975 and almost 10% below the peak...