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...held to about 6% during the next year, and perhaps even reduced below that. Such an accomplishment would permit interest rates to continue declining, thus helping to revive industrial output. Reason: lenders would no longer feel that they had to demand high rates to guard against having their returns eaten up by renewed price boosts. In fact, the drop in inflation seems to have been one reason for the interest-rate slashes that have already occurred...
...Preceded by hordes of journalists and skilled advancemen, he had toured a total of 55,800 miles in 31 states by jet, helicopter, rail, bus and ship. The candidate had even stumped for 79 miles on foot. He had attended 1,287 meetings, forums, assemblies and receptions. He had eaten 63 campaign breakfasts, 148 campaign lunches and 32 campaign dinners. He was the guest of honor at 21 get-elected evening parties. Finally last week the ordeal was over, though the results had been known throughout the entire campaign...
...miracle cure for cancer. The shrinking pubic appeal of these businesses led to a sharp reduction in investments and sparked an intense competition that has threatened many of the smaller firms. Jeremy R. Knowles, Amory Professor of Chemistry, predicts that "the smaller ones [will] be eaten by the larger ones in a Darwinian struggle for survival...
...West, were what I encountered time and time again during my visit to Washington in March, in talks with politicians from both sides as well as with the man in the street. I consider it to be particularly dangerous that this insidious poisoning of West German-American relations has eaten its way from the political level into the consciousness of the American public. Impaired relations between politicians who are accustomed to think and act in a pragmatic manner can be put right very quickly. Once that kind of estrangement has taken place between peoples, it cannot be put right again...
...Central African Republic under Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa as an example of such an extreme case. Crowned in a garrish ceremony attended by many world leaders in the mid-70s, Bokassa was forced to abdicate his throne because of widespread accusations that he had personally murdered, and later eaten, dozens of schoolchildren...