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...Three. During the decade, the combined output of these six jumped 66% v. a rise of 42% for the economy as a whole. In some of the six, notably utilities, which posted a 128% gain in output with only an 18% price rise, productivity rose fast enough to counteract the usual price increases that accompany soaring demand. But in others of the powerful six, productivity fell behind. Productivity did not keep pace with costs in construction and durable goods; added to a seventh burgeoning industry, services, which by its very nature does not increase productivity rapidly, they were enough...
...seminars are meant to counteract the tendency in education to devote increased attention to the less talented students...
Khrushchev has attempted to counteract the enormous imbalance between heavy industry and consumption that marked the Stalin regime. Bergson feels, however, that Khrushchev's goal of surpassing United States consumption cannot be realized...
Movement to counteract this apathy of the nation must start either at the grass roots or from the strong call of the President, he maintained, "but Eisenhower has fallen right into the complacent mood of the country...
...eggs in cold storage went rotten, the department, in desperation, turned to buying dried eggs, stored tons of them in a cave near Atchison, Kans. By the time the Government decided in 1953 that supporting egg prices hurt even the farmers, by encouraging the overproduction it was intended to counteract, total taxpayer losses passed $331 million...