Word: nia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With so many high-riding executives, Poland is considering retiring 10% of its motorized fleet and chauffeurs. Bulgaria has decreed strict restrictions on who can use official cars. In Rumania, where Romînia Libera reports that an "astronomical" amount is spent on chauffeured cars, the government has ordered their use limited to top-echelon people. Rumania is also launching a drive to find "useful work" for the displaced chauffeurs and, along with Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, is trying to sell the cars to the bosses to console them for the loss of their drivers. As a result, many a party...
Although he claims not to enjoy all the publicity, Shurcliff has developed a sure public relations touch. When Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd announced that transcontinental SST's might fly subsonic over the populated eastern half of the country and then supersonic from Chicago to Califor- nia, Shurcliff immediately wrote to western political leaders pointing out how little the SST's proponents seemed to care for the west's peace and quiet...
Just in case any readers doubt the depth of its study, the Journal explains that "Managing Editor Bruce Clerke has spent more of her time in Califor nia than in New York during these recent months of preparation. Then Staffers Susan, Lyn, Poppy, Mary, Lois, Margaret and Trudy followed to see for themselves...
...Congress in the form of appropriations. For fiscal 1968, beginning next July 1, it amounts to $135 billion and contains an $8.1 billion deficit. This seems a further invitation to inflation. But last week, for the first time, the President emphasized the more comprehensive national income accounts (NIA) budget, which includes trust funds, such as social-security money. Although larger than the administrative budget $169.2 billion for '68-the NIA deficit is smaller by $6 billion because the trust funds have a surplus...
Fine Tuning. The NIA budget is a more accurate measure of total federal impact on the economy, and Johnson claims the Administration can manipulate NIA delicately to produce a stabilizing force. For the rest of fiscal '67, the NIA deficit is computed at $5 billion.' This is to decrease starting July 1, so that by the second half of fiscal ''68, when no federal stimulus is wanted, the NIA should be finely tuned to a balance...