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...British rail and textile industries matured, they searched into the past for the reasons for their success. Instead of recognizing their former readiness to innovate and courage to take risks, they picked up on antiquated management policies and clung to them desperately. The result, of course, was to hasten collapse. The same thing is happening in the auto industry today...
...asking Congress to increase the progressiveness of the income tax system for the express purpose of aiding the poor. Because lower-income people tend to spend a larger proportion of their income than higher earners do, the tax changes should encourage consumer spending. Thus the surcharge should not hasten or deepen a recession...
...producing countries suffer even the slightest defeat," he said in 1971, "it would be the death knell for OPEC." If a united front of oil consumers can be created, the cartel could suffer that initial defeat. This could hasten the day when OPEC shares the fate of history's other cartels-disunity as each of its members seeks to secure its own favored deal with customers...
...South's grievance against the North--is real, despite its usefulness to the people who throw rocks at schoolbuses. But the redress of that grievance will be likelier when education is better and when black and white people unite to obtain it. The integration of Boston's schools should hasten that...
...this affair was but one move toward making the world safe not for peace but for the protection of American corporations' interests abroad. According to The New York Times account, Kissinger headed the State Department faction which, not content with peaceful subversion of Chile's government, wanted to hasten a military coup. The removal from office of Kissinger would be the first shift toward a wholesale shift in foreign policy away from support of repressive governments and toward the nurturing of close ties with popular leaders such as Salvador Allende in Chile...