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Boulding warned that there were three threats to the achievement of this "high-level equilibrium." The first of these is the increasing population. He lamented that there are no adequate institutions available to limit the population, and called misery the only effective method at present. Looking ahead 200 years, Boulding saw a "universal slum," should this problem not be overcome...
...High-level Stagnation. In the face of this, even the overwhelming majority of pessimists were cautiously aware that a slide so mild could be quickly arrested. W. T. Diebold of the Bell Telephone Co. of Ohio liked the term ''high-level stagnation" to describe what is happening to the economy. Myron Silbert of Federated Department Stores called the drop "a mild thing'' that will not approach previous downturns. But whatever they called it, almost all of the other business econo mists contended that the current slide will get worse before it gets better...
...craving for enough food for his family, a decent house, an education and medicine. A month ago Latin Americans cheered the announcement from the summer White House at Newport that the U.S. at long last was ready to start a big program of loans for social needs. A high-level team of U.S. loan experts arrived in Peru almost immediately to sign a $2,000,000 U.S. housing loan (the U.S.'s first for housing) and to work out details for $53.2 million more in loans aimed at direct help to people...
Nixon went along with Rockefeller's proposals for two new high-level Government posts to "assist the President," something that Ike himself had suggested in one form or another...
Loss in Authority. In keeping with the calm, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's final report on the U-2 imbroglio proved to be so mild that all but two of the Republican members signed it without reservations. It chided the Administration for lack of "coordination" and high-level "direction" in the handling of the U-2 incident, but agreed with Secretary Herter that "the basic realities of the world situation have not greatly changed...