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...anemic growth rate put added pressure on Congress as it debated two initiatives that may have a profound impact on the economy: a sweeping reform of the tax system and a plan to reduce the $200 billion-plus federal budget deficit. Some lawmakers fear that tax reform, which may hike Government revenues in the short run, when combined with a federal spending cut could deaden an already weak economy. Said Representative Jack Brooks, a Texas Democrat: "We could be staring a raging recession right in the face...
...estimated $45 million annual business in upscale conditioners, lotions and moisturizers is still only a small part of the $1 billion-plus men's grooming market. But it has tripled in size since last year. Customers are crowding a silver-gray men's skin-care counter in Chicago's Marshall Field for shaving tips by white-smocked saleswomen. Estee Lauder, which already had the Clinique and Aramis labels, this year added Lauder for Men. A $20 sampler kit of the new Lauder line sold out in less than a week at Bullock's in Los Angeles...
...created solely to deal in such U.S. Government securities as bonds, notes and bills, currently a $1 trillion market. Using only 20 or 30 traders who operated out of a fifth-floor room above a Wall Street-area clothing shop, Drysdale quickly managed to amass a $4 billion-plus portfolio of borrowed U.S. Treasury securities...
...billion-plus total comes to nearly one-quarter of the human race. If all Chinese stood in rows four abreast, 6 ft. apart, and marched through Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace at a steady pace of 3 m.p.h., it would take more than ten years for them to pass. Though Peking's tough birth-control measures have cut population growth from 2.1% a year in 1964 to 1.4% a year now, a baby is born every two seconds...
Longerrange, there is the awesome problem of re-establishing a product that had enabled Johnson & Johnson to win 37% of the entire $1 billion-plus market in nonprescription painkillers last year, vs. a mere 4% in 1976. Company officials would say nothing last week about their future marketing plans for Tylenol...