Word: burdens
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...essentially on speculation and then tried to market them to dealers. Because its dealers' lots are overflowing with slow-selling cars, Chrysler has been forced to add to its own sprawling stockpiles. Inflation raises the cost of financing this inventory and adds to the company's financial burden. The wholesale price index in July jumped at a 14% rate, the worst since February...
...Soviet Union can avoid exacerbating conflicts that may arise even if it did not cause them. That means they should not dispatch proxy forces, not encourage coups and create a general climate of insecurity, not sign friendship treaties under conditions that will lead to military operations. That burden we must assume, too, in any rational pattern of coexistence...
Small companies have special needs, Levitt argues. Government regulations are an especially heavy burden on them. By Levitt's reckoning, the cost of complying with environmental, safety and other rules comes to $32 per $100,000 of sales for companies with less than $100 million in revenues, vs. $4 for larger corporations. Because small companies are not as well known and therefore need to broaden their shareholder base and increase ownership of their stock, they prefer cuts in capital gains taxes rather than the increased depreciation allowances advocated by big companies. Says Levitt: "Our kinds of companies...
...demand from buyers is likely to remain strong and even grow as more and more baby-boom couples rush to jump aboard the real estate express. The prospect is for prices to continue rising faster than salaries. This will lead to a steady increase in debt, which will burden even well-paid two-income families...
Financial problems also loom, especially for the developing nations. They have already run up some $220 billion in debts since oil prices began climbing almost six years ago, and the latest rises could add some $6 billion more to the burden by year's end. Fears are growing of defaults that would shake the private Western banks that have done much of the lending. Turkey, Sudan, Bolivia, Zaire, Zambia, Jamaica and other countries are in trouble...