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...Princeton can design a bomb, and a journalist can find the plans to one in a public library, any nation can. As a result, American policy should focus on limiting the spread of the plutonium that is the prerequisite of any nuclear weapon as the only way to curb proliferation...
...estimated $30 billion. Just before its Christmas adjournment, Congress agreed to guarantee $1.5 billion in loans to the flat-tired Chrysler Corp., by far the largest rescue effort in the country's history. Congress failed to pass any substantive anti-inflation measures, rejected Carter's plan to curb rising hospital costs and showed little enthusiasm for the consumer and environmental legislation that was so popular in past sessions...
...REASON SO MUCH OF The Brethren reads like a $13.95 edition of People Magazine is that the authors approached a potentially important project like autograph hounds at a Broadway opening, scrambling from the curb to the lobby in a frantic attempt to collect anything possibly significant. During a pre-Christmas Harvard appearance, the authors said a journalist's job was simply to find out and print whatever he could. "And let the chips fall where they may?" one questioner demanded. "Yeah," Woodward answered, leaning back in his chair. "You can't as a journalist sit there and say what...
...Inflation will abate, but not soon enough or substantially enough to cheer about. Recessions are usually slow to take the steam out of prices, and a tight money policy requires months to produce results. In fact, high interest rates will continue to add to inflation until they start to curb overall demand, and then prices are expected to taper off. Despite rising unemployment, wages and benefits stand to accelerate. They increased about 8% this year, or much less than the rate of inflation, and workers can make a strong case for more, just to catch...
Although President Carter will face tremendous political pressure during election year to curb prices, board members felt that he would not try to impose mandatory wage and price controls, and that any attempt to do so would be disastrous. With the exception of Beryl Sprinkel, who figured that there is almost a 50% chance that the President will go for controls, most board members gave that prospect only a 20% to 40% chance. Carter first would need congressional authority and, as the debate raged on Capitol Hill, businessmen would rush to raise prices to get in under the wire. Further...