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This year will be dominated by the dollar. Fewer
dollars. Dieting, as fat people know, can be dangerous
to your health.- Losing weight without the aid of a
special program, plus doctors and other professionals
could put you away for good. Great issues of the day
like inflation, unemployment and U.S. inability to com
pete in the world markets will take stringent methods to
correct inside of four years.
Ronald Reagan may have ranted and raged during the
campaign to build up the U.S. military strength relative
to the Russians, but neither he nor the USSR will need
to fight a war if high unemployment and inflation rip
America apart at the seams. Unemployment is high to
start with in this country, especially in black America at
fourteen per cent, according to the Department of
Labor.
Thus, problems are obvious, solutions are not! A
Nobel Prize-winning Austrian economist, Friedrich von
Hayek, so-called intellectual godfather of today's con
servative economics, when interviewed in Business '
Moire people than ever both young and old are
choosing to remain single and are enjoying the
"singles lifestyle. These people; whether single
because of a divorce, the death of a spouse, a separa
tion, or because they simply chose
not to marry, today are more
readily accepted by society, and
obtaining financial advice and
assistance is less complicated than
in the past.
Loans are extended to single
people with no regard ot tneir
marital status, ana some single i y
people today are getting mortgage 1 j
ana home improvement loans. Eddie Camay
It is very important that young
single people think that this time in their life is
more than an interim period before they get married
anJ have a family, even if that is eventually what
they want to do. They can fool themselves into think
ing that they do not need to save until they have a
spouse and a. family, without stopping to think that
emergencies medical or otherwise can hit them
You can gain confidence. Begin looking at yourself
in a different way than you have before. See yourself as
a better, more intelligent person, remind yourself that
you're more capable than you've been giving yourself
credit for being. Actually convince yourself of this and
you will find it is much easier to be succc .sful in your
daily endeavors. .
The more you believe you are capable, the more
capably you'll begin acting. As you prove to yourself
that you are intelligent, talented and capable, your con
fidence in yourself will become a stronger, more
forceful part of yo x life.
. You may never be the greatest person the world has
ever known. But you can become the best person you
are able to become. You can become what, for you, is"
the best. Much of this success depends on the con
fidence you have in yourself. With a strong sense of self-r
confidence, you can begin achieving far more than you
ever thought possible. It is this type of self-confidence
that helps you in everything you do in life. It overflows
from your home into all areas of living. You become a
more confident person in everytning you unaenane.
i Business In The Black
1981 -
A Slight Depression Is Coming On
Outlook
By Charles E. Bene
. Week Magazine favored a year or two .of severe reces
sion or a depression to cure inflation. "My great exam
ple is that in the U.S. in 1921 and 1922, after six months
of depression, prices came down 44 Vt."
As old as Mr. Reagan is however, he did not ex
perience such an economic period as a worker since Hier
von Hayek is not Mr. Reagan's peer, but his senior by
ten years. However, this "old school of thought" is
likely to be tried in 1981 if for no other reason than Mr.
Reagan can afford it during his expected "honeymoon
with the public."
In this event, such glowing reports by the country's
biggest banks and others, predicting "1981 promises to
be a year of economic improvement" deserves a reex
amination. Allowing inflation to hover above ten per
cent is probably very unacceptable to the new conser
vative administration coming into the White House.
Breaking the double digit barrier will be the chosen bat
tle for Mr. Reagan's marines.
To provide housing for the increased housing demand
because of the growth of the young adult population
25-35 years old, is also likely to be put on the back
from vour bonk
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By Eddie Causey
just as quickly as someone who is married. Singles
need to realize the importance of having a savings
plan, so they won't miss perhaps the easiest time in
their life to save. Later on, if and when they have a
family, money goes very quickly to satisfy the needs
of a family.
There are many ways a single person's budget may
be different from a married couple's or a family's.
For example, a single person may spend more on
entertainment, especially if he or she is dating.
Several nights a week of restaurant dinners and
movies can take quite a bit out of a single person's
salary. Also, if the single person lives alone, he
carries the responsibility of his house or his apart
ment by himself There is no spouse or roommate to
share the expense of a newspaper, the utilities bill,
the phone bill, magazine subscriptions, and other
such items.
Many young people try to buy everything they
need to start out on their own all at once. And it is,
true that young people just out of school in their first
job will need much more than they probably ever
needed. For the first time, they may need professional-looking
business clothes which they had no
Coping
The Key To Success
By Dr. Charles W. Faulkner
you try. This is faith faith that makes your self
confidence strong and powerful and causes success to
follow you wherever you go. Eventually, you'll become
a super-confident person.
Consider, for a moment, that this means confidence
confidence that leads to a belief in your ability to be a
success. By building a strong feeling of self-confidence
you can actually be a more successful person than you
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burner until inflation Is whipped. When consumer can
see long term interest rates fallirig'to front of their face,
they will head for the market place and h will probably
be closer to Christmas than Easter. v
In any event; 1981 will bring a tower rate of inflation
and a higher' rate of unemployment under a conservative
oriented administration in Washington this year.
Instability and thus timing of an improvement in the
employment situation will pretty much follow the flow
of oil. Petroleum prices win dominate both domestic
and international conditions. Combined effect of
domestic oil discovery and international difficulties with
oil producers will play a major role in any early
. economic recovery in the U.S.
Unfortunately, even with a settlement of the Iran
Iraq squabble and sensational oil finds in America, a
resurgent U.S. economy will not be allowed to run
faster than the game plan of 'the President, Ronald
Reagan. Reins will be put on the U.S. economy during
1981, either by the market place shortage of supply
andor political position.
need for in school. Young single people may live on
their own in apartments for the first time, which
means they need to furnish an entire place by them
selves. They may buy their first car, and will prob
ably need to borrow money to do so. In all of these
cases, it is better for single people to buy things
gradually and build up a good credit rating inslcaH
of borrowing a lot at first only to find out that they
can't meet the payments. .
Making a budget is not only for married people
with children. A single person should list all
required expenses: mortgage or rent payments, :
college tuition payments, insurance (car, life and J
other), automobile payments, and monthly payments
on other loans. Then the remaining money can be
used on flexible expenditures: food (eating out, for
example, costs more than eating at home), clothing,
gasoline (riding a bus to work may cost less than
driving to work), utilities, telephone and recreation
and entertainment. If required expenses are equal
to or more than take-home salary, cuts must be .
made somewhere in flexible spending or expenses.
Eddie Causey, a banker for six years, is banking officer and a
branch manager of a Wachovia Bank and Trust office in Asheboro.
ever thought possible. It can and will work for you. You
will learn to trust yourself and to build the faith in
yourself that you need to achieve and do well. This
trust, this faith in yourself will begin growing. It will
grow stronger and stronger each and every day that you
apply yourself to the responsibilities you have.
Another way of saying this is: Get rid of the negative
things in your life. Eliminate from your life the things
that say no. Begin putting to work the things that say:
"Yes, this is possible, this can work for me, this will
work for me." When you find yourself thinking that
something won't work, tell yourself it will work. You
can make it work make it worlc by doing your very
best.
The 1981 Grand Prix Brougham.
. There.is a cycle to, all of this, u is a son ot circie.ypur ,
lifcuwill begwLtakmgvJUS a verfcgooAipHKe imM
iicss .TiVorkiiike this? AriyourrfionAJdenofcims ,
nroves. your performance will improve. As your perfor
mance improves, your self-confidence grows stronger..
Get into the swing of this circle right now. Let it be the
type of circle that helps you succeed and progress as a
person. " ...
Never, never run yourself down. Refuse to believe
that you are a failure or that you can't accomplish a par
ticular task. Begin building yourself up. Start feeding
your mind with thoughts that are confident thoughts.
Believe in your abilities. Really begin believing that you
can arid will do better and will succeed at anything that
Happiness Through Health
Too Many Vitamins Are
Dangerous To Health
By Otto McClarrin
A young girl's mother had been giving her daily doses
of 25,000 international units of vitamin A for two years.
A 20-year-old college student, on the advice of a skin
doctor, had been taking 50,000 units daily for two years
for acne and had raised the dose herself to 400,000 units
a day.
Suddenly, the four year old girl looked sunburned:
her skin dry and scaling, her lips deeply cracked, Her
hair was falling out. She complained of severe pain in
her ankles and feet. Her palms were yellow, And she'
was going blind. Not slowly, but all at once for short
periods. "Transient loss of vision," the doctors called
it.
The college student wasn't much better. She could see
all the time, but she often had double vision and her
eyes twitched to the sides. Her skin was scaling all over
her. body. Her tongue was oozing blood. She was
vomiting and chronically ill. The doctor thought she
might have a brain tumor.
But the diagnosis in both these cases (reported in the
New England Journal of Medicine) was vitamin poison
ing. Both were suffering from a chronic overdose of
vitamin A. When they stopped taking the vitamins, their
symptoms cleared up within a month.
These are extreme cases, but not the worst cases on
record. People have died of vitamin overdoses. In one
bizarre case, a man's red blood cells exploded from a
huge dose of vitamin C.
Americans are on a vitamin binge. We spent an
estimated $476 million on the little pills in 1976, and
sales are running at about $1.2 billion a year At least a
third of all adults (and higher percentages of college
educated adults) take vitamins in search of better mental
and physical health, longer life, greater energy or a
more active sex life.
M dical authorities hotly dispute the benefits from all '
this pill-popping. .Studies support bQth sides of con
troversy, and new findings seem to turn up every week.
The final word on vitamins has not yet been written.
Out of the controversy has come agreement that if1 the
dose is big enough, vitamins stop acting like foods and
start acting like drugs. This has led to unanimity in the,
medica. world about at least one aspect of vitamins:
Taking too many can be dangerous to your health.
"There's no question that taking too many vitamins
is harmful," says Dr. Richard Rjvlin, chief of nutrition
at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and New
York Hospital. "But the level at which vitamins start
acting as a poison is an individual matter. It varies from
Person to person."
To be safe, Rivlin suggests taking doses no more than
two or three times the U.S. recommended daily
allowance (RDA). "That would cover the needs of most
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& Brains.
That's right, brains,.EQch rand.
WxWdugfiam comes equipped ,:
with d GM Computer Command
Control System that continuously
monitors engine conditions as you
drive. Tiny computer chips take this
data, analyze it, then regulate the
carburetion for a precise mixture of
fuel and ale
And the 1981 Grand Prix
Brougham is a real knockout.
Smooth crisp lines and sloping
hood make this very "practical"
car a joy to own.
Inside ifs all style. Big enough
to transport six adults in real
comfort.
Looks, style and brains, all yours
at a price you can afford. Check it
out at your local Pontiac dealer.
The 1981 Grand Prix Brougham.
Another fine example of Pontiac
know-how.
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