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Dramatic results are not expected immediately from either of the talks. Still, the gravely important subjects to be discussed at both will help Washington answer a multibillion-dollar question: What does it take to defend America? Facing the Administration in the next year are a series of complicated and costly decisions concerning new weapons systems and force modernization that are likely to determine the military profile of the U.S. through the end of the century. President Carter has said that if it appears "the Soviets are not acting in good faith with us [in the arms talks] and that...
...choices that have to be made if we are going to achieve welfare reform or tax reform or reorganization of Government, I think the President has to establish some pretty rigid rules. He is trying to force these agencies-and I enthusiastically support that-to start from the first dollar up and see what they can do better with the money we have. I have always been offended by waste...
...kitchen floor, a .22-cal. bullet wound in her stomach. Police, searching the house, soon found bizarre confirmation of the tales about her wealth. Stashed around the place, in toolboxes, drawers, a vacuum-cleaner bag and a garbage can, was some $5 million in crisp bank notes, mostly hundred-dollar bills. An investigation revealed that over a period of time, she had withdrawn at least $8 million in cash from her bank-meaning that some $3 million was missing. Some burglars, the cops concluded, had looted the house, killed Mrs. Jackson and set fire to the place in an effort...
...industrial corporations. Specifically, by one important measure of profitability it was the best year since 1968. Aggregate sales of the 500 rose 12.2%, to $971 billion; profits climbed much faster, increasing 30.4%, to $49.4 billion. That meant that the median corporate blue-blood kept 4.6? of every sales dollar as net income, a seemingly modest profit margin but one that had not been matched in eight years...
Some other measures of prosperity: the billion-dollar club gained 24 new members; 227 companies reported 1976 sales of $1 billion or more. Of these, 36 topped $5 billion, nine more than the year before. Only twelve of the 500 lost money, v. 28 in 1975. Biggest loser: Rohr Industries. It dropped $52.1 million, mostly in its rail-transit-equipment business, which it plans...