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...indeed no time for stalemate government; the state of the economy demanded quick, concerted action. For the fifth successive month, leading economic indicators continued to dip. Mainly because of soaring oil prices, the U.S. trade deficit reached $3.07 billion last year, the second largest deficit in American history after the 1972 imbalance of $6.9 billion. Most economists anticipated that the jobless rate would continue its climb. The only bright news was a decline in interest rates. While the health of the auto industry remained the largest question mark in predicting recovery, the stock market nonetheless had its biggest rally since...
...expected that Pan Am would have trouble renewing it without some form of government guarantee or operating subsidy. But such federal underwriting would surely run into considerable resistance in Congress; Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire has already voiced opposition to making Pan Am "the nation's largest welfare recipient." Pan Am's financial troubles have also impeded its search for a merger partner...
While the Corporation's approval of the plan on Monday represented the largest dollar-for-dollar fee increase in University history, spokesmen for Dean Rosovsky's office--which worked out and presented the proposal--looked on it as little more than a holding action designed to keep the Faculty's deficit constant as operating costs continue to rise...
...challenge to develop now and increasingly more sophisticated and personnel weapons has been eagerly accepted by American corporations. In the lead in Honeywell, whom contracts for anti-personnel weapons in 1972 totalled $73.7 million. According to Fortune Magazine. Honeywell is America's 53rd largest corporation. In 1971 it was employing nearly 100,000 people...
Brewster last April announced the Campaign for Yale, the largest fundraising effort ever undertaken by any American university, to boister Yale's $500-million endowment and avoid a "real dwindling of the quality of the institution...