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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Good. Not under the present circumstances, but immediately after the Iran-Iraq war is over. Indexation is the cornerstone of our long-term strategy...
...sweep of postwar history, no event, no issue, no political or social process has more profoundly shaken the established world order, or brought about more rapid and tumultuous economic change, than the end of the era of cheap oil. This change has been called the energy crisis, but the term is too limiting. Rather than being merely an ongoing trauma over oil, the energy debacle has become a crisis of economics, of politics, of the very balance of power in world affairs. In short, it is an all-embracing, mesmerizing Everything Crisis...
...prosecutor in the racketeering case had asked the judge to find that DiFrancesco was a "dangerous special offender" and therefore subject to additional punishment beyond the 20-year maximum. The judge consented, but he tacked only a year onto the defendant's existing nine-year term...
...early days of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, preschool Head Start programs for disadvantaged children were set up nationwide. But then, after studying the later progress of the preschoolers, researchers for Ohio University and the Westinghouse Learning Corp., among others, concluded that Head Start made very little long-term difference in the children. Now comes evidence that the benefits of high-quality preschool programs can last at least through age 15. That finding was made by Michigan Researchers David P. Weikart, 49, and Lawrence J. Schweinhart, 33, who last week released an interim report on an 18-year study...
...landlord, who refused to be identified, said yesterday that when the store's lease ran out in April, the bookshop did not renew it. He added that he will evict them because he has found a "longer-term tenant." He would not identify the new tenant...