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...Congress fails to adopt his tax and spending cuts, it will only "prolong even longer and more painfully the cure that must come," Reagan said...
...unemployment in Europe will climb and torrid inflation will cool only slightly. To rein in rising prices, governments have resorted to traditional tactics, in particular sharply slowing the growth of their money supplies. The result is, however, an international war of high interest rates that threatens to deepen and prolong the economic malaise. Says Hans Mast, executive vice president of Switzerland's Credit Suisse: "There is no mistaking that the world is moving into perhaps its most difficult phase since World War II, and governments cannot do very much about it. After three decades of Keynesianism, old instruments...
...Election Day, but feared that some hostages might denounce Carter for the way he handled the crisis. The President's men also were afraid of a backlash against the Administration for making concessions to Iran. That danger grew Sunday when it became clear that the Iranians were going to prolong the suspense and the agony for the U.S. ? and thus almost inevitably intensify the impression worldwide that the U.S. was paying ransom to kidnapers...
...Both sides knew bargaining had gone on a long time, and neither wanted to prolong it," Cambridge mayor Francis H Duehay '55, who is also chairman of the school committee, said yesterday...
...Iraq chooses to prolong the conflict, it will almost certainly be to inflict such punishment on the Iranian economy and military machine that they will not be a major factor in the gulf for some time to come. Iraqi Defense Minister Khairallah reiterated last week that his country coveted "not one inch of Iranian territory" beyond that "usurped" by Iran...