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...those involved in the project were unmoved by the jarring mathematics of starvation. Yet, as Pines concludes, aid alone will not avert future famines: "The crisis will get worse until we in the West demand that the underdeveloped countries decrease their population growth...
Sharp Defeat. Ford's extraverted socializing included some golfing with members of Congress. Yet this did not avert a sharp congressional defeat for him on the first issue on which he directly challenged the legislators. The Senate rejected, by a vote of 64 to 35, Ford's plan to save $700 million by postponing for three months a pay raise for federal employees...
...Western man?Judaism, Christianity, Islam?have historically demanded that a wrongdoer, no matter how highly placed, repent before he is forgiven. King David of Israel, warned by the prophet Nathan of impending punishment for his crime in stealing Bathsheba, threw himself into days of fasting and prayer to avert divine wrath. King Henry II of England, whose burst of temper led to the murder of Thomas a Becket, submitted to a barebacked scourging by the monks of Canterbury as part of his penance for his complicity in the crime. Such dramatic mortifications may have sometimes masked a lack of genuine...
...avert collapse, the builders and lenders almost unanimously called on the Federal Reserve Board to relax its tight-money policy, and many advocated a balanced federal budget to give the board more room to maneuver. But they also floated a variety of ideas for special help for home finance, several of which would scarcely help to hold down federal spending. Some of the proposals...
Wrong Number. Last weekend negotiators struggled to avert a nationwide walkout by 710,000 Bell Telephone System employees. The Bell workers' motives were not unlike those of employees in other industries riddled with or threatened by strikes. American Telephone & Telegraph had offered wage increases averaging 9.4% this year and totaling 15% over the next three years...