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...most auspicious of Commerce's signals was flashed by the turnaround of three indicators: orders by manufacturers for durable goods, contracts and orders for plant and equipment and new building permits. Reversing sharply in March, the three portend slower growth in inflation-provoking corporate spending on expansion. They reflect boardroom decisions that will soon show up as changes in factory output and personal income, which are measured among the so-called "coincident" indicators. Reaction is already evident in retail sales, which also turned down sharply in March. Eventually, the effects will ripple through the economy as rises or declines...
Creating the Sums. Harrington argues that the distressing future the figures portend can be forestalled only by a radical transformation in both economics and politics. The profit motive must give up its place as the primary mainspring in American life, yielding to "a cooperative, rather than a competitive, ethic." To solve the nation's problems, money must be allocated "uneconomically," in the historical sense of the word, and "wasted" on such uncommercial values as "racial and class integration, beauty and privacy...
...also significant for the unfolding history of the United States? Does it portend a new era with a new class struggling successfully for power; a new and potent force trying to re-arrange events closer to its heart's desire...
...followed Haughton up the corporate ladder. In fact, Lockheed's management has been in lock step for several years, with Haughton (pronounced Hawton) serving virtually as Court Gross's alter ego, and Kotchian acting as Haughton's. Not surprisingly, Haughton says that the new shifts portend "no great changes" in the company's course...
...Chief Judson Gooding had been on the track of Oregon's Mark Hatfield ever since moving from our Paris office last January. Gooding had come away from his first interview with a deep impression of his new source: "Hatfield drew me out on De Gaulle, what his policies portend for the Western alliance, for U.S. trade and for the future of Franco-American relations. His questions showed a remarkable depth of understanding...