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...that the Harvard heavyweight crew lost its first race in 25 tries, by one-tenth of a second, to Penn...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Best and Worst of '77: Should Old Acquaintance Etc. | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates, a 6% increase in steel-mill products drives up the Wholesale Price Index in the following month by only one-tenth of a percentage point. Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME's Board of Economists, believes increases in the wages of public employees, energy prices, "maybe even the Russian wheat sale" are more inflationary than steel boosts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: The Hardy Steel Myth | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...example, burns 1,000 times faster and survives only 100 million years. The sun, which is some 5 billion years old, is only at the mid-point in life. Smaller stars, on the other hand, are the Methuselahs of the celestial community. A star with one-tenth the mass of the sun can burn for a trillion years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STARS Where Life Begins | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

Caustic Remarks. Yamani did not even bother to attend the final session in the conference hall. Instead, smiling and gracious, he invited TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn and a handful of other reporters to his tenth-floor suite. There, in equable tones, he delivered some surprisingly caustic remarks about his OPEC colleagues. How did he feel about breaking ranks? "Is it fair for all OPEC to get together to decide the price of Saudi crude? Is it fair for others to decide against our will?" What about OPEC arguments that a big oil hike is justified by inflation in the prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The OPEC Supercartel in Splitsville | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...increase in the number of students in South House who wish to move is in part a result of the decision to open the lottery to eleventh and tenth choice students, but also determination by several students to leave the Quad...

Author: By Deborah Gelin, | Title: Quad Sophomores Participate In Lottery Process for Moving | 12/17/1976 | See Source »

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