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...stance and the economic downturn it generated, the increase in the Consumer Price Index dropped from 12.4% in 1980 to 3.8% last year, the lowest level since 1972. But inflation concerns stirred a bit last week when the Government reported a .6% increase in wholesale prices in January, the sharpest rise in 14 months...
...explanations prevail. One hypothesis is that today's college graduate is less idealistic, more selfish than his predecessor of a generation ago. He lacks a social conscience and cannot be counted on to change the world. The other theory accepts this view but embraces it So what if the sharpest mind makes the best living warding off anti-trust complaints? Society, through the market, has decided it values this the most. In the circular logic of pure capitalism, "utility has been optimized" in the status quo because it is, well, the status quo. Both views unfairly denigrate the ideals...
...always expected of him. He even wrote a song about it, I Don't Wanna Face It, a hard bit of self-deflation ("You wanna save humanity/ But it's people that you just can't stand") that is one of Milk and Honey's sharpest cuts. This song, according to the call-and-response style established by Double Fantasy, is answered by One's reassuring Don't Be Scared, which contains wisdom ("If your hearts are lit/ Drop your survival kit/ Then you never have to/ Run or split") that would be poor...
Members of the group on the diet alone reduced their cholesterol levels by around 4%, but levels in the men who also received the drug fell by 18% to 25%, with the sharpest decline coming in the first year of treatment. Analyzing the findings, researchers found that the bigger the drop in cholesterol, the lower the incidence of both fatal and nonfatal heart attacks. When the cholesterol level was reduced by 25%, the risk of heart disease was cut by 50%. The group on medication also had 20% fewer episodes of angina and 21% fewer coronary-bypass operations to restore...
Some of his sharpest criticism was reserved for the shoddy consumer-goods industry. At a recent sales fair, Andropov said, officials had turned down 500,000 TV sets, 115,000 radios, 250,000 cameras, 1.5 million watches and clocks, and 160,000 refrigerators because they were of inferior quality. Such "intolerable" inefficiency, he admitted, causes "discontent among the population" and encourages "disgusting" black-marketeering...