Word: nils
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...made on other, noneconomic grounds." It is notable that those years when the Pentagon budget was largest in real dollars, and took its greatest share of the G.N.P. and federal budget, were also the years when the nation enjoyed some of its lowest inflation rates. In 1955 inflation was nil, and in 1965 it was around 2%. Increases of more than 2,000% in Government spending on health and housing in the past decade, declares Nunn, show that the pattern of inflation fits "the real increase in nondefense spending." Observes Oregon Senator Bob Packwood: "Let's lay to rest...
...tormented land last week. U.S. officials reported that Big Daddy was in Libya seeking arms from his fellow Muslims in Tripoli for a possible counterattack against the new Ugandan government and its Tanzanian allies. Though Amin's chances of succeeding in such an effort were practically nil, at least some members of his shattered army professed to be eagerly awaiting his return. Claimed a soldier from the elite Simba Battalion, once the bulwark of Amin's forces, speaking to a Western newsman near the Kenya border: "His Excellency is on the radio every morning telling us what...
...Dalton Pass Chapter of the reservation passed a resolution late last spring calling for a halt to all uranium exploration and mining on their lands. The impact was nil. Development continues unabated as the TVA-Mobil-United Nuclear consortium project expands from uranium exploration into mine shaft and mill construction. The miners will be drawn from the Navajo population, with the "specialists" being non-Indian experts from outside the reservation. This project, in conjunction with the many other coal and uranium mining projects, promises to make a uranium boom town out of a hitherto traditional Navajo community. In turn, according...
...will surely become even less effective as it passes through the Finance Committee of oil millionaire Sen. Russell Long (D.-La.). Congress in 1975 decreed decontrol of domestic oil by 1981; if Carter had waited until 1981 for decontrol, the chances for a strong windfall profits tax would be nil. This year, Carter had the opportunity to engineer a trade--giving oil companies early-decontrol profits while passing a windfall profits tax that would over the next decade save consumers billions of dollars by recovering some of the excess profits. He has, for the most part, missed that opportunity...
...relations with Taiwan, the other raised the ceiling on the national debt at the eleventh hour, allowing the Treasury to pay its bills. "This is the slowest Congress I can remember," says Illinois Congressman John Anderson, an 18-year Republican veteran. "The activity on the floor has been almost nil." Says Nevada's G.O.P. Senator Paul Laxalt: "It's just been eerie around here...