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...Inflation will run at an annual rate of 8% by next December, then slip to 7% by December 1980. A major reason for this slowdown is that the recent rate of price rises is unlikely to continue. In the first quarter alone, fuel jumped at an annual rate of 25%, and home financing, including mortgage rates, taxes and insurance, shot...
...some skill that is in short supply in the U.S., a requirement few can meet. The State Department is considering granting asylum to the pro-Shah students, who would be in peril if they went home. Others, without this protection, may follow the course of so many foreigners and slip into the shadowy world of illegal aliens. For all the drawbacks of that way of life, many students would doubtless prefer it to the risk of brutality and oppression in Iran...
Preoccupied with a thesis, he did not even practice this winter, but he nonetheless went to UHS for the physical required of all varsity players. "I'm ready to play," he said one day, grinning from ear to ear and waving the green slip after the physical. "Fish is gonna HAVE to put me in at third doubles on the California trip...
Three Days of the Condor. Always use the back door. You never know, you may slip out for lunch one minute and return the next, pastrami and mustard in hand to find all your office mates spread across their desks, covered with blood. Meek and mild-mannered Robert Redford, who translates Russian novels for U.S. intelligence, came home to just such a spread, and leaving lunch aside, stepped into a phone booth and became "The Condor." The transformation is not complete--Redford is rather mild-mannered as a hero, too. When he calls into Central, he becomes a critical...
...with the season slip-sliding away and the record falling to 13-11, that's not quite good enough...