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Sake for Carpenters. Last week mail sorters in Brussels staged a wildcat strike to protest the Belgian postal authorities' insistence that they occasionally work overtime and that they forgo the traditional extra leaves on top of summer vacation. Travelers on a British European Airways flight departing London Airport for Paris sat impatiently aboard their plane for a full hour one recent morning while porters took a coffee break before loading the baggage. In Ireland a three-week-old strike of gravediggers, who demanded longer vacations, is forcing mourners to bury their own dead. In Australia, 100 Queensland packinghouse workers...
British Aircraft must sell 100 VC 10s just to break even on the plane-but few lines seem willing to forgo the profitable 707s for a newer plane with mixed advantages. The problem makes even bleaker the prospects for the British aviation industry, which has been in a steady decline in recent years. British Aircraft's earnings fell last year from $5.5 million to $2.8 million and the company withheld dividends, as Chairman Lord Portal euphemistically explained, "to provide against possible under-recoveries on development...
...brand of idealistic pragmatism and condemned the tendency to label and dogmatize, with too many politicians preferring to be expedient rather than patient: "To grant audiences to 170 million Americans would be exhausting. So we make our divisions, our classifications and our cross-classifications, which permit us to forgo the listening and the searching we ought...
...steel's deal turns out to be excessive, the Government will tighten up on spending, forgo more tax-cutting. But if the steel settlement turns out to be reasonable, the Government will be able to pump billions into the pocketbooks of U.S. consumers-probably by further tax cuts-without risking inflation. The Administration has a new flexibility in economic planning because the success of the '64 tax cut in spurring the economy without inflation has taken much of the burden off federal spending and monetary policy as the two main weapons the President must rely upon in coping...
...which came to the aid of farm marketing cooperatives after the market crash. He sought $663 million to push public works-a figure that critics decried as excessive. He proposed the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the National Credit Corporation. He secured an early agreement in which labor promised to forgo strikes and new wage demands, Big Business agreed to maintain wages and spread work to avoid layoffs. He negotiated an international moratorium on the payment of intergovernmental debts...