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...all-out attack on waste, inefficiency and inflation brought on a minor recession earlier this year. Yet by last week industrial production posted an estimated 4% overall gain for the year. Many Brazilians still gripe about this year's 45% rise in the cost of living, but businessmen give Campos a rousing cheer, and foreign investors are registering their votes with money. Alcoa is planning a $50 million aluminum project, Volkswagen is spending $100 million to double its 60,000-car annual production, and Ford is building a $30 million plant that will turn out all-Brazilian Galaxies...
...rebuilding program. Seattle cost its parent company, King Broadcasting, hundreds of thousands of dollars in ads when it ran an article ridiculing local wines. When a project to renovate Los Angeles' downtown plaza stalled for three years, the magazine Los Angeles got it going again with an all-out assault on city and state agencies that were holding it up. Even Atlanta, which remains a Chamber of Commerce publication, has run pieces debunking the Ku Klux Klan and questioning the city's cultural pretensions...
...year: to Yale, 5-2, to Providence College, 8-6, and to Ivy champ Brown, 6-3. A loss tonight would spell trouble in Harvard's upcoming games with Northeastern, St. Lawrence, Clarkson, and Brown. But the Crimson skaters are still fighting for their positions and should win with an all-out effort...
...central idea of On Escalation is that all international encounters take place in an atmosphere of possible violence, ranging from small "conventional" probes to all-out nuclear holocaust. Strategies of victory may be based on either the concrete elements of the crisis or on manipulation of levels of violence. The nuclear "balance of terror," however, discourages the actual use of force and makes threats a major means of international coercion. For the nuclear age, Clausewitz is amended to read: "The manipulation of the risks of war is the continuation of state policy by other means...
...middle rungs," when we are using large conventional forces and threatening nuclear war to coerce our enemies. Only if we know how to move up and down the ladder skillfully, will we be able to pursue the national interest and at the same time avoid a possible escalation to all-out nuclear...