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Some other reasons for thinking that the business slowdown will not deepen into recession: averaging out quarterly swings, the 42-month-long expansion has been moderate so far, and has not produced the excesses???a too rapid pile-up of business inventories, for example?that can be corrected only by recession. Consumer buying has held up fairly well, business investment in new plant and equipment is picking up a bit, and both should be spurred by the tax reduction of $16 billion to $18 billion a year that Congress is about to enact. In 1979, though, that cut will just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: No Crash of '79 Coming Up | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

Perón will be best remembered for the successes?and excesses???of the nine years of his first two presidential terms, before a coup sent him into exile in 1955. A professional soldier and son of a moderately wealthy landowner, he rose to power as a champion of the exploited urban workers, the "shirtless ones" as he affectionately called them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Peron: The Promise Unfulfilled | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

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