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Despite massive discontent, the Congress Party has never really had a goad in the Lok Sabha. Disgruntled elements within Congress are loath to leave the sheltering paternalism of the party, which benevolently permits them the fruits of patronage and influence peddling. The only coherent opposition has been the Communist Party, whose influence is greater than its 30 seats in Parliament suggest. Nowadays the Communists generally support the Congress Party's left-wing candidates, including Menon, oppose only the right-wingers. Nehru has occasionally swatted the Communists for "having their thoughts outside India," but is less hard on them than...
...that it makes little economic sense for U.S. carriers to compete on overseas service. A more sensible approach, the presidents argued in Washington, would be to grant U.S. lines exclusive routes. For service to such im portant gateways as London and Paris, which the second U.S. line might be loath to relinquish, they suggest that the flights -and revenues-should be pooled and the schedules arranged so that the two lines would complement, and not compete with, each other's services...
...construction projects that the government has banned private building. Sweden had 11,400 job opportunities waiting for metal workers in May, 5,000 more than a year ago. In France, De Gaulle's massive attempt to move industries into the provinces ran into the resistance of French workers loath to move to new areas. A precision-products manufacturer in Colmar complained: "We scoured eastern France for people, and we know they just don't exist...
...rules delay of one day between readings. At that, Johnson merely requested and got a three-minute adjournment, which turned the legislative calendar over one day, then got his second reading. Then, declining to strain precedent by bringing the bill directly to the floor but loath to see it bottled up in the Judiciary Committee chaired by Mississippi's James Eastland, Johnson won a vote (86-5) requiring that Eastland report the bill back within five days...
While the local participation means an easier way through local prejudices, it also means taking on headaches. Biggest is the expectation of high returns by local investors. In an area where investment firms guarantee 8% and manufacturing profits sometimes top 50%, investors are loath to accept less, and dislike U.S.-type management, which believes in building up large reserves, plowing profits back into expansion. Nevertheless, the investors seem to be swinging around to the U.S. concept. In Brazil, where U.S. owners in 1945 held 95% of the stock in 67 companies, today they hold 95% in only 17 companies...