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...Level Productivity. Bundesbank President Karl Blessing says West Germany is catching "the English disease," by which he means allowing wages to outrun productivity, thus pricing goods out of foreign competition. But the unpopular "wage pause" ordered by the Macmillan government a year ago has helped Britain to hold wage increases to 4.6% and to spur British exports to the Common Market countries, where wages are increasing much faster. Britain's increase in productivity, however, is a poor 2^%, and companies with excess capacity find little incentive to expand. Managers are also delaying decisions to spend until they learn whether...
...Beatty's ambition seems almost too big for his breeding. The U.S. has never been noted for producing distance runners; no U.S. miler has held the world record, even momentarily, in the past 25 years. But little (5 ft. 5 in., 128 lbs.) Jim Beatty has long since outrun his national pedigree. He holds the world record for the outdoor two-mile (8 min. 29.8 sec.) and the indoor mile (3 min. 58.9 sec.), as well as the American record for 1,500 meters, 3,000 meters and 5,000 meters. By this week, as he wound...
...states of Western Europe, European steelmen do not follow the U.S. practice of cutting production to keep prices up whenever demand slips; instead, the Europeans go right on pouring-and slash prices. By 1965, according to the best current estimates. Western Europe's steel capacity is likely to outrun its consumption by as much as 18 million tons. If that happens, some U.S. steelmen glumly anticipate a transatlantic invasion of European steel salesmen with open order books-and cut-rate prices...
...sets are about the only exception, because they are necessary for government propaganda and to provide badly needed entertainment amid all the austerity. In the campaign against smugglers, twelve so far have been sentenced to death. When told by harbor police that the smugglers' hot-rod launches can outrun government boats. General Park offered advice: "When it is clear that the smuggler will outrun you, open fire and sink him. If they are caught, smugglers are going to be executed anyway. It doesn't make any difference if they are drowned at sea or shot on land...
...answer may have been supplied by one Williams supporter when he predicted before the election, "John's whole slate will probably outrun him. He just doesn't have the political personality to compete with Wallison." In fact, members of the Williams slate did outrun the presidential candidate in four out of five contests...