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...commonplace at A.&P. Between 1966 and 1976 the chain's sales rose from $5.4 billion to $7.2 billion, but profits fell from $56 million to less than $14 million. They are likely to shrink this year to near invisibility. Even in 1976 A. & P. earned a mere tenth of a cent on each dollar in sales. The company yielded top sales rank in the supermarket business to Safeway (1976 volume: $10.4 billion) in 1973. Now it is close to being overtaken as well by Kroger (1976 sales: $6 billion). A. & P. shareholders are understandably disgruntled because they have...
Even more worrisome to non-Communist shipping executives, the Soviets' Tenth Five-Year Plan (1976-80) includes long-range programs for growth in tonnage and better technology that imply an even greater invasion of Western routes...
...procedure suffered an embarrassment in September when Carter announced the nomination of Monroe McKay, 49, a Brigham Young University law professor, for a Utah-allotted vacancy on the Tenth Circuit Court. McKay's brother is Representative Gunn McKay, a Democrat close to House Speaker Tip O'Neill. The nominating panel had McKay on its list, but a poll of the Utah State Bar Commission had ranked Salt Lake City Attorney David Watkiss al the top. Utah's two Republican Senators even congratulated Watkiss. Then Representative McKay approached O'Neill, who approached Carter. This week McKay...
...well as the 13th-and what may prove to be the 14th-moon of Jupiter, and 80 supernovas, or exploding stars. Last week Kowal announced an even more remarkable sighting: a small, faint object orbiting the sun between Saturn and Uranus. It could be the solar system's tenth planet...
With the break of dawn yesterday, the tenth of Dhu'l-Hijja, Moslems all over the world rise to celebrate the Bairam Feast. All head for the mosques to perform the feast's congregational morning prayers. The financially able have lambs slaughtered in memory of God's merciful exchange of a lamb for Abraham's intended sacrifice of his son. The meat is then distributed to the poor, the needy relations, and neighbors, leaving one-third for the family. Children eagerly put on their new clothes and collect a bonus allowance to spend during the feast holiday. Families exchange visits...