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Harris will go to New Hampshire on October 5 to assess his chances in that state's primary...
...businessmen and their employees assess their immediate future, the differences can seem vast indeed. To a corporate official looking 90 days ahead, the road appears considerably more free of barriers than it did before Aug. 15. He has a virtual guarantee of stable costs?including one of the fastest rising costs of all, labor?until mid-November and perhaps beyond. More important, he can see opportunity ahead?in an invitation to expand his operation and in the expectation of higher sales, both of which gains have already been reflected in the optimism of a rising stock market. G.M. Chairman James...
...business leaders applauded the plan, convinced that it would create general economic momentum and thus benefit everyone. The Argus Weekly Staff Report, an investment newsletter with a good forecasting record, predicted that general business activity would "accelerate sharply" over the next year. Still, few businessmen had a chance to assess completely the program's impact on their own operations. An executive of Lockheed spoke bluntly for many other firms. Just before learning that the British-made Rolls-Royce engines for Lockheed's L-1011 jetliner will be subjected to the 10% import tax he exploded: "The whole goddam nation...
...pins out from under the non-Communist world's monetary system. Foreign government leaders, many of whom were on vacation, went scrambling to salvage some order out of the enveloping chaos. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau broke off a holiday cruise off Yugoslavia and returned to Ottawa to assess the impact of the Nixon moves. On the French Riviera, French Prime Minister Georges Pompidou cut short his vacation to hurry back to Paris for emergency meetings. In Tokyo, hasty phone calls summoned traveling Japanese Cabinet members back...
...Meir, at this point in time, a year after the cease-fire went into effect, how do you assess the outlook for war or for peace...