Word: boosts
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...conventional military forces. The U.S., he said, is willing to provide NATO with nuclear capability, probably in the form of Polaris submarines and medium-range ballistic missiles-but nuclear fire control must remain in U.S. hands. Macmillan was generally agreeable, although he pointed out that a conventional-forces boost would cause Britain considerable money and manpower problems...
...bankruptcy three years ago, Pakistan now has some $235 million in foreign exchange reserves, has curbed inflation at home. Ayub stoked up the Pakistan Industrial Development Corp., which starts new industries with government capital, sells them to private businessmen as soon as they are flourishing. The agency helped boost Pakistan's national income some 4% last year. Food grain output has increased almost...
...Flukes. Under the N.H.L.'s peculiar play-off rules, designed to boost team treasuries, the first-and third-place teams fight it out for a place in the playoffs. The second-and fourth-place teams skate through the same routine. Thus, while the third-place Black Hawks disgraced the first-place Canadiens by beating them four games out of six, including unprecedented back-to-back 3-0 shutouts, the lowly, fourth-place Red Wings swept four straight (after dropping the opener) from the Maple Leafs. But the pair of upsets were no flukes...
...confidence in the recession's end spreads, much of the boost will come from businessmen curtailing their inventory liquidation, the biggest factor in the G.N.P. slump. In the next quarter, the rate of inventory liquidation is expected to ease to about $2 billion, providing a solid lift for the economy. But that turnaround would not be as great as in 1958, when the inventory rate swung from minus $7 billion in the first quarter to plus $3 billion in the fourth. Nor do economists look for any strong spurt in housing starts, which have helped pave...
...freshman year got another boost this week when the Faculty voted to give lower-level courses the option of reading period. To anyone who takes seriously the idea of reading period this must be a welcome move...