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Indexing Idea. What frightens Iranian planners most is the unanticipated slump in oil sales over the past two years. To offset a $2.4 billion decline in income, they have postponed plant construction and raised corporate taxes. But the experience has not changed Iran's position as one of the leading price hawks in the OPEC cartel-quite the opposite. Though Iran made a tiny price cut on heavy crude last winter as a concession to the market, its planners fully intend to argue OPEC into raising prices again this year. How much? Hushang Ansary, Minister of Economic Affairs...
...actual fact, none of these things work the way they're supposed to. The building shapes that look so pleasing in schematic drawings in real life form a confusing jumble, one in which it's hard to tell where the order is. The red brick, while offset by inset balconies and windows, is still massive and intimidating. The pedestrian areas are claustrophobic, their trees in neat rows or sunk in cement, quite unlikely to be the site of casual gatherings. The river is nearby, but so is the noisy traffic on Soldiers Field Road, Western Ave. and the Mass Pike...
UDALL. To stay in the race as a serious contender, he needed to win in Wisconsin. The narrow loss was only partly offset by his unexpectedly strong showing in New York, where he did well among affluent liberals, well-educated young people and nonorganization Democrats. Thus, barring a miracle, Udall's role in the campaign is now that of a spoiler, offering liberals an alternative to Carter and siphoning off some of his potential support...
Zajonc warns that birth order in itself must not be overemphasized, since a large age gap between children within a family will offset the advantage the first-born normally has. Further, he does not discount genetic and other influences on intelligence, or claim that his theory predicts any given person's intelligence. He deals with averages, not individuals. Still, he says, "all our hypothetical data seem to fit." He also notes that higher scores on Iowa and New York performance tests by children who will turn 18 in the early '80s suggest that his hypothesis is correct...
...number two, Todd Lundy evened the score with a 6-3, 6-3 shellacking of Yale's Tabin. Lundy won the match on the strrength of his lobs which offset the Eli's strong net game...