Word: inflationitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greene's fictional Haiti, which seems not very far removed from the real one, is a Black Power station brutally run by "Papa Doc" Duvalier and his swaggering Gestapo, the Tontonx Maconte. Eventually, Ford realizes that in order to survive in Haiti he would have to become a vegetable...
The federal government's current "war economy" drive has added to the impetus to cut down highway spending. Secretary of Transportation Alan S. Boyd recently sent telegrams to the 50 state governors, asking them for their reactions to a possible 50 per cent cutback in highway spending as an anti...
Gallup's most recent sampling shows that only 38% of the nation likes the way L.B.J. is handling the presidency-an alltime low for him and a long way from the 80% approval he enjoyed in January 1964. Viet Nam is his foremost problem, and barring either a spectacular...
Encouraging Atmosphere. Indonesia's main problems are economic, and in that area Suharto has begun to make a major impact. He has assembled the best men available to doctor the economy and given them freedom to act. They have managed to cut inflation, for example, from 600% in 1965...
Industrial profits fell sharply last year -by one count more than in any other major manufacturing country-as the economy's growth rate sagged to a mere 1½% (after discounting for 3.9% price inflation). Though overall growth has picked up a bit since then, industrial production and private...