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...minute and 46 seconds was plenty of time, but Kubacki and company still couldn't get their act together. One botched snap from center, two incomplete passes later, and one reverse and Harvard said good-bye to any hopes of an undefeated season and began to wonder about what went wrong...
Should the U.S., West Germany and Japan do more to help the global economy snap back faster from the recession? Emphatically yes, says H. Johannes Witteveen, the Dutch economist who is managing director of the International Monetary Fund. At the IMF's annual meeting of finance ministers in Washington last week, Witteveen suggested that the three leading industrial powers were all but dutybound to pursue more stimulative economic policies in order to "lead the world to recovery." Witteveen's argument drew prompt rebuttals from all three nations. Said U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon: "We believe we have taken...
...office towers and luxury high-rises that have so dramatically changed San Francisco's skyline rock like ships in a storm. Inside, people are flung across rooms. Windows and walls crack. When power lines snap, lights go off and elevators abruptly stop, trapping hundreds of panicked office workers...
...coffee. In neighboring São Paulo state, frost damaged 50% to 70% of the coffee trees. The effect on prices was instant. Within a week of the frost, coffee rose from 52? to 84? per Ib. on the London commodities market, as nervous traders rushed to snap up supplies in case of a shortage. In Rio de Janeiro, supermarkets lifted prices 53?, to $1.29 per Ib. And in the U.S. last week, the General Foods Corp. hiked its wholesale prices for grocery brands (including Maxwell House) by 20? per Ib. for ground coffee and 3? per oz. for freeze...
...Pleasure was a perfect Him v. Her extravaganza for the 50,764 people at Belmont and for millions watching on CBS, which put up $350,000 to televise the event. Then, 3½ furlongs and some 35 seconds into the race, with Ruffian slightly ahead, there was a sharp snap. "Like a pistol shot," said the filly's jockey Jacinto Vasquez. Ruffian's right front ankle had cracked. The cheering faded as the afflicted horse pounded on, then slowed to a stop with the fragile sesamoid bones above the hoof completely shattered. Within nine hours Ruffian was dead...