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Nonetheless, Z.P.G. is likely to prove more boon than bane...
When Congress passed legislation recommending that the states adopt a 55 m.p.h. speed limit as a means of curbing gasoline consumption, most observers predicted an additional boon - a decrease in traffic fatalities. Sure enough, last month when the National Safety Council released highway-death-toll figures for the first six months in 1974, deaths were down a heartening 23% from the same period in 1973. While noting that the energy crisis had decreased the number of cars on the road, the council still gave credit for the downturn to the 55-m.p.h. speed limit, calling it a "major contributing factor...
Nowhere was that more apparent than in the money markets in London, Frankfurt and Zurich, where Nixon's departure was viewed as a boon to the U.S. economy. As the inevitability of his resignation became obvious, foreign investors bid the once wallowing American dollar up to new highs. Millions went to purchase stock in American corporations, adding fuel to Wall Street's exuberant "resignation rally...
...wheat and feed grains and are less eager than in recent years to buy American farm goods. But further declines in U.S. crop expectations could well start a new rush of foreign buyers seeking to build their reserves as a hedge against future shortages. That might be a boon for the American trade balance, but it would kick the nation's food prices even higher. In addition, millions of people in Asia and Africa are living on the edge of starvation and looking to the U.S. food-aid programs for survival. A continuing siege of crop-killing weather...
...Federal Housing Act; this year he is increasing the proportion of his firm's inner-city lending from 17% to 41%. He has given 20% of his officer and supervisor jobs to women. Greenwood regards inaction on critical issues by both the Administration and Congress as a boon to grass-roots leadership: "It's a healthy thing, this feeling that we'll have to do it ourselves...