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Throughout the album, Cale blends his specific style of disjointed imagery with offset choruses of abstract solidity...
...what General Electric Chairman Fred Borch called "a basic judgmental difference as to whether monetary and fiscal policies alone will slow down inflation. They [the Government panelists] think it will. We do not." The executives called for a variety of Government measures aimed at improving productivity in order to offset the impact of wage increases, including pressure on unions to loosen restrictive hiring practices. On Sunday, 15 Business Council members went to the White House at the President's invitation, presumably to give him the same message directly...
...Angeles physicians expressed concern over the belief, held by a growing number of drug addicts, that milk is capable of neutralizing the effects of heroin. Apparently believing that pushers use powdered lactose to dilute-and thus enlarge-their supplies, some addicts inject themselves with milk in an attempt to offset an overdose. The results are dangerous indeed, since milk contains proteins and fats that produce severe reactions when introduced directly into the bloodstream. According to Drs. Ernst Drenick and Kenneth Younger, one heroin addict whose friends injected milk into his veins became comatose and required extensive emergency treatment before...
...that "the idea that something fundamental had changed in the economy to make permanent inflation inevitable was simply a mistake-another example of our propensity for regarding every ripple as a trend." He cited a recent increase in workers' productivity as an important tendency that should help to offset wage hikes...
...Meir, flanked by Israeli security guards and appearing unusually solemn, arrived in the U.S. on two vital missions. First, she wanted to negotiate a long-term package of military and economic aid. Her military shopping list included sophisticated electronic equipment and Phantom jets that would partially offset Israel's loss of advantage at the Suez front caused by the forward deployment of the Soviet missiles. The economic proposals mainly involved long-term credits to a nation that spends almost 30% of its gross national product on defense, more than three times what the U.S. allocates...