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...theory, it would seem that developing nations ought to welcome some measures to brake local arms races, thereby freeing money for social and economic development. For example, impoverished India has doled out $3 billion to the Soviet Union for arms in the past three years; Pakistan, scrimping to find $250 million for a new fertilizer factory, spends at least that much on weapons annually. Yet the Third World countries reject any ban on arms transfers, arguing that it would put small states, which cannot manufacture their own weapons, at the mercy of the nations with greater industrial capacity...
...oven Johnson and another man unloaded fiery-hot brake shoes as they came down the conveyor belt. It was one of the worst jobs in the plant. The men worked amid screeching ear-splitting noise where there was no air-conditioning and poor ventilation and where the temperature reached 120 degrees. The lighting was dim, the floors were oily, and a thick blue mist of evaporated coolant made it impossible to see from wall to wall. The men were issued specially lined gloves to handle the hot iron but the grease and the work wore them down...
...staff coordinator, and Robert Hartmann, Presidential Counsellor. They were joined by Economist Paul McCracken, who as Nixon's first chairman of the CEA, helped formulate the original "game plan" strategy of combatting inflation with budget and monetary restraints; that policy slowed the economy but did not do enough to brake prices...
...lift sales and profits, Murphy's team has two strategies. First, brake the soaring costs of production (estimated to be rising at $50 a car each month) by building more components in-house and striving to increase productivity. Second, increase fuel economy by trimming hundreds of pounds from the average 4,500 lb. weight of GM's full-size cars by 1978; that would doubtless increase sales of those models. Murphy also expects that material costs will ease fairly soon as demand cools hi the world economy...
...Brake," about one-third of France's 700,000 shopkeepers last week voluntarily reduced prices by 5% on school supplies, children's clothing, ham, yogurt, sausage and other common goods. No one expects the widely publicized program to have anything but a cosmetic effect on France's severe economic difficulties. A more fundamental attack on inflation was launched several months ago when President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing restricted credit by imposing high interest rates. Recognizing the hardship the measure inflicted on most Frenchmen, Giscard has urged his countrymen: "Do not give in to discouragement...