Word: controls
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Mexico has cut its population growth from 3.5% to 2.9% by a birth control program that one American expert describes as "the most far-reaching and innovative in the non-Communist world." It will spend $530 million on the program this year. Contraceptive devices and surgical sterilization are provided free in clinics throughout the country. Some 12,000 women, many drawn from the ranks of furanderas (herb doctors), have visited 60% of Mexico's remote villages. Roughly 40% of the country's 15 million women of child-bearing age have been persuaded to use some form of contraception. Although...
Democrat Arthur Okun complains that the Fed has lost much of its control over credit policy as a result of innovations, such as money market certificates and mortgage-backed securities, that are designed to keep banks and thrift institutions flush with funds for home loans. Says Okun: "Money is easy but expensive, and nobody is saying no to any borrower. They're saying, 'The price is high. Won't you take...
...financially straitened Chrysler Corp. got a felicitously timed lift last week in its drive to persuade Washington to approve federal guarantees for loans from private banks. The Economic Development Administration decided to guarantee loans totaling $111.1 million for the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. to install pollution control equipment. Though that guarantee was granted under a special Administration program to help steelmakers meet the heavy cost of complying with environmental rules, Chrysler officials are sure to cite it as a precedent in their push for much bigger guarantees...
...Citizen and 13 other Canadian dailies). But over the past two decades, Toronto has gradually displaced Montreal as the nation's leading city. English-speaking Montrealers began moving out in even larger numbers after René Lévesque's secession-minded Parti Québecois won control of Quebec in 1976. For a while, the Star weathered that exodus well. But during the strike, circulation at the newly lively Gazette soared to roughly what the Star's had been before the dispute. By the time the Star resumed publication, its readership had plummeted to the Gazette...
...have taken the advice of his commander in the field, supported by his Secretary of Defense, and concentrated on the battle in South Viet Nam. He could have temporized, which is what most leaders do, and then blamed the collapse of South Viet Nam on events running out of control. He could have concentrated on the summit and used it to obscure the failure of his Viet Nam policy. Nixon did none of these. In an election year, he risked his political future on a course most of his Cabinet colleagues questioned...