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...Robert McNamara, for his efficient running of the world's largest destruction and construction machines...
...largest and most influential groups of all: women...
...financial crisis of local government. As middle-class taxpayers leave the central city for the suburbs, revenue goes down while public-service costs go up because most of those who remain are poor. Welfare costs in New York City, for example, now consume $1.5 billion annually, the largest item in the city's $5-billion-plus budget. Welfare costs in suburbia are increasing at an even greater rate than those in the central cities...
...that the Geneva Conference ended the French-Indo-China war and created three control commissions (for Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia) to supervise the cease-fire and to prevent future violations of its agreements. The commission in Viet Nam-the largest and most important-has held more than 750 full meetings and filed eleven weighty reports on its mission. Without exception, they are chronicles of frustration: the ICC has simply not been able to curb violations, or, for that matter, prevent a war. Its composition-an ideological troika-has rendered impossible the unanimous agreement required for any assessment as laid...
...around to enacting the surtax at midyear, much of its effect was washed away by another big factor. While taxes went up, wages went up much faster. During the year's first nine months, about 3,400,000 unionized workers won pay raises averaging 7.5% annually, the largest gain since the Labor Department started keeping track 14 years ago. For the year as a whole, wages and benefits rose about 7%, while productivity increased only 3.2%. The result was that so-called unit labor costs jumped 3.8% -and the consumer had to pay for the jump...