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Critics charge that Alexander regards the AVF as an avenue for upward mobility by disadvantaged blacks. When he took office blacks made up 22.3% of the Army; now they constitute 29.2% (the national population is 12% black). Says one general: "He leans too hard on the race issue. He rams it down your throat." Retorts Alexander: "I am concerned about all soldiers in the Army and all will be treated equitably." Alexander got into shouting matches with Meyer's predecessor, General Bernard Rogers, over promotions and assignments. Rogers was reassigned in 1979 to Belgium as Supreme Allied Commander...
Like many market masters, Granville has a system. He uses the volume of stock transactions to help predict major swings. "When you throw a ball into the air, it has upward momentum," he explains. "Before the ball drops, the upward momentum drops sharply. The ball is still rising, but the upward momentum is falling. You know that it will reach its top soon. In the same way, when the majority of my indicators signal a new bottom or top, I know to flash the buy or sell signal...
After subsiding for nearly a decade, inflation is now racing upward at the stunning annual rate of 106.8%. Ironically, that is even a little higher than the rate that prompted Brazil's generals in 1964 to overthrow duly elected President Joáo Goulart and establish a military dictatorship. Meanwhile, the Brazilian cruzeiro continues to plummet in value-from 26 to 54 per $1 during the past twelve months. Unemployment is climbing, and only a fraction of the young people entering the labor pool each year ever find jobs. One consequence: alarming crime rates in the ever more overcrowded...
Without the growth in foreign visitors, the U.S.'s $140 billion travel and tourism industry would be in worse shape than it already is. As unemployment has ticked upward and inflation has put a tighter and tighter squeeze on family budgets, more and more Americans have either been staying home or going on cheaper vacations. Though even a week at the seashore now seems expensive to many Americans, Europeans are eager to take advantage of what appear to them to be fire-sale prices. While persistent high inflation is a relatively recent problem for the U.S., a number...
...priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who was also an accomplished paleontologist, has become something of a cult figure. Millions of readers have been fascinated by his writings, which often put him at odds with ecclesiastical authorities. Particularly controversial were his views on evolution, which, he held, moves in an upward direction with increasing domination of spirit over matter. Now the saintly Teilhard stands accused of a little playful tampering with evolution. Last week he was implicated as a conspirator in one of the most famous scientific hoaxes: the notorious Piltdown caper...