Word: musts
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Botha has a particularly difficult tune of it, since he must somehow obscure the ugly face of racist discrimination. But to translate apartheid as "good neighborliness" is the height of cynicism. One might as well refer to murder as "giving someone a well-deserved rest...
Chrysler will be eligible for the federal guarantee only if it raises $2 billion on its own from sources specified by the legislation. From domestic banks, financial institutions and other creditors, for example, Chrysler must find $400 million in new loans that would not be covered by the Government's guarantee. Because the fate of Chrysler's suppliers and dealers is so closely tied to that of the automaker, Congress insists that they contribute $180 million by such means as buying stock or extending loans. Similarly, the states and cities that benefit economically as the sites of Chrysler...
Behind any persuasion, of course, must be the belief that a nation will take draconian steps. But the capability must be there for credibility. The White House is nearly convinced that we must apply some kind of "bloodless military pressure" to lodge that message in the minds of allies and enemies. But a central question remains: Would Carter ever send U.S. forces into real combat for the national interest...
...Jimmy Carter wants the financing for his own more modest synfuels program to come from his proposed windfall profits tax; it would be levied on the increased revenues that U.S. oil companies have been earning since price controls on oil began to be phased out last June. But Congress must now wrestle with a Senate bill passed last week that would yield $178 billion in revenues by 1990 and a House bill that would raise some $277 billion. A compromise of $227 billion was agreed to last week, but details are not expected to be worked out before February...
...more next December. The economists admit, however, that they and almost all the other experts have grossly underestimated inflation's staying power in the past several years. Cracks Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources, Inc.: "I have been predicting the inflation rate for maybe 20 years, and I must have got it right about three times...