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...could come to peace talks with only one option surrender. A contender whose candidacy lives or dies on the freeze issue would face political death were he to pursue the cause less than singlemindedly as President. In such a situation, the Soviets would enjoy substantial leverage, allowing them to extract sizable American concessions in exchange for consenting to the President's plea for a freeze...
...largest remaining synfuels project also looks a bit wobbly. That is the $2.1 billion, 750-employee Great Plains venture to extract synthetic gas from coal near Beulah, N. Dak. Great Plains, owned by five energy and utility firms, had planned to charge up to $10 per 1,000 cu. ft. of gas. But the facility, currently 70% complete, could charge no more than $6.25 per 1,000 cu. ft. because of the fall in fuel-oil prices, to which the gas rates are pegged. At those prices, Great Plains looks like a terrible investment for its owners. They are turning...
...real impetus to the arms contest, according to the author, came in the post-war settlements. In contrast to Americans who believed that the newly developed and used atomic bomb had little leverage in U.S. foreign policy, the Soviets viewed the mighty weapon as the Allies' means to extract concessions from Stalin. Thus began the familiar pattern of Soviet attempts to match Western technological and military breakthroughs...
...such debt totaled a record $342 billion in January. Commercial banks, which made nearly 45% of those loans, were by far the largest single lender. The failure of bank rates to fall much has widened the spread between what banks pay for some key funds and what they extract from small customers (see chart). It has also raised cries that the lenders are gouging consumers to make up for losses on loans to big borrowers the banks had no business courting in the first place. Declares Kay Pachtner, co-director of San Francisco's Consumer Action: "There...
Three basic arguments have been put forth for national service. Proponents argue that it would ameliorate the disastrous youth unemployment problem, improve the quality and equality of the armed forces by bringing a broader range of teenagers from more affluent and better educated backgrounds into the services, and extract some sort of in-kind payment for accruing the advantages of U.S. citizenship...