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Consumer spending will continue to be vigorous. Auto sales should roll to a third straight record-11 million or more, including imports. Housing starts should slip from last year's 2,400,000 to about 2,100,000, but that is one decline that is healthy. Federal housing subsidies have helped keep construction at such a high pace for the past year or so that there has been some overbuilding. The consumer savings rate is likely to increase slightly, to about 7.5%. One reason: consumers may well save some of the $5 billion to $10 billion in tax refunds...
...minutes apart. The psychological distance, however, is much greater, for Tromsø lies 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, and its 40,000 inhabitants live two months of each year without seeing the sun. In this polar blackness or mørketiden* (murky time), the mentally unstable may slip over the edge into a temporary state of profound mental disturbance. Even those who are emotionally healthy the rest of the year may become unaccountably tense, restless, fearful and preoccupied with thoughts of death and suicide...
...Washington, D.C., man takes the prize for elegant-and successful -simplicity; he pocketed all the deposit slips at the writing desks of the Riggs National Bank and replaced them with his own electronically coded forms. For three days, every customer who came in without a personal slip and used one of the "blank" forms was actually depositing money into the culprit's account. The thief reappeared, withdrew $100,000 and walked away; he has not yet been found...
...admits. "I'm told I'm too independent. It's a fault when you can't say 'Help!' but all I can do is retire and get solitary and work things out for myself." On such occasions, Diana will sometimes slip away to an old finca she bought some years ago on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza. There is no electricity at the house. Characteristically, she does not plan...
Brown has run into some bad luck so far and their recorded in deceptive. "They're a good sound team", Crimson coach Bill Clearly said yesterday "They had B.U. Eastern but let that one slip away 5-4, and they loss to the Cornell because of penalties early in the game. Against Rensselact polytech they ran into some hot goaltending lost in overtime (3-2) even though they outshot...