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...natural gas would not be able to meet growing demand. We owed it to future generations to stop wasting so much energy and find other sources for fuel. The immediate problems were serious enough. Our excessive purchases on the world oil market were helping to force prices ever upward, and spasmodic shortages were damaging to the American economy. We were afflicted with both inflation and unemployment, and there was special suffering among the aged and poor...
...soccer season and necessitating an intimate relationship with the New York-Boston shuttle flight. But things have become more complicated since he took on the interim post of financial aid director during a year-long search to replace Martha Lyman, who had succeeded him when he was promoted upward from the same post five years...
...denatured outside the narrow confines of Manhattan, and that the jokes and insights New York fans loved would not only fall flat but offend when transpose to a different environment. You never knew, either, whether the latest Allen film would be hailed or condemned as tripe after its initial upward climb. Not only did no one know what Allen would do next; no one was under any obligation to admire...
...finance budget deficits. As a result, Western financial institutions now have more than $540 billion in loans outstanding to foreign borrowers. Even the IMF's associated institution, the World Bank, currently headed by former Bank-America President A.W. Clausen, has seen its portfolio of Third World loans rocket upward in recent years, though most of the loans have been for financially sound projects with a high probability of success...
...smart newlyweds of a generation ago, their home, the first rung on the ladder of upward mobility, was almost inevitably furnished with "Danish modern," complete with Marimekko textiles, stainless-steel cutlery and plain white tableware. There was no better way to show modernity. Recently, however, modern Scandinavian design seems to have vanished from public awareness in the U.S. Much of it has been poorly adapted and absorbed by U.S. mass culture. In addition, it is no longer modern to be modern...