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...citizens. Attempts to reduce unemployment can easily aggravate inflation by leading to excessive spending and deficits. Efforts to improve the lot of old people and the poor, or to clean up pollution, can and do make inflation worse. When the Government increases Social Security taxes and the minimum wage, and pours on more and more federal regulations, it imposes extra costs that business passes along in higher prices. Finally, inflation seems to have become self-perpetuating. One example: uncertainty about whether a new factory will repay the costs of building it causes business to hold back on investment...
Shipping men reckon that McLean, who has a modest office in New York City, would like to run U.S. Lines with a minimum of interference from Washington. Some $44 million in U.S. Lines loans has been guaranteed by the Federal Government. "If McLean retired the loans," said one of his spokesmen, "he'd have a much freer hand in running the line. He just wants wheeling and dealing latitude...
Lawrence E. Maguire, director of student employment, announced new procedures designed to limit spending during the summer, and thus keep the money-go-round problem to a minimum next year...
Members of the Harvard Hunger Action Project (HHAP) reported yesterday they succeeded in enlisting the minimum of 1000 students required to sponsor a one-meal fast Thursday night although the final count represented a decrease from participation in previous fasts...
...production in which everything stands out? Cindy Ruskin's multi-level set is a model of attractive, well-balanced simplicity (and of course it only seems simple; a set like this must have required tremendous work to devise and build), with carry-on pieces of furniture kept to a minimum. This, combined with highly efficient stagehands, results in scene changes that frequently finish well ahead of the ovations for a previous scene's show-stopper. Andrew Dorsey's lighting is extremely well-defined, further illuminating the depth of director Carpenter's compositions, and someone handles the moving spotlight very adeptly...