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There is no excuse for further delay in undertaking the study. The number of students who will be affected by modification is, of course, small--Dean Munro estimated 25 to 50--but prompt action is still required to spare these students the agony of wrestling with a language they are unwilling and often unable to learn...
They differed on details but demonstrated a remarkable consensus: prompt imposition of a surtax is vital to curb inflation in an overheating economy, reduce a Government deficit that may hit $29 billion this fiscal year and head off a repetition of the credit squeeze that rocked business...
...electronics company's president, Charles Francis Adams, to "make some money." Geneen tightened up Raytheon's cost controls, arranged fresh credit from the banks, squeezed out new working capital. He saw to it that Raytheon paid its bills on time, to take advantage of the standard prompt-payment discount; at the same time he insisted that Raytheon's debtors pay up pronto. Anxious to infect the entire company with his own profit consciousness, Geneen on one occasion rented a local high school auditorium, used it to deliver a lecture on basic economics ("Sales are the volume...
...could disagree, but some, like Massachusetts' Senator Edward Brooke, thought that prompt, decisive action was also imperative. "It is up to the President," he said, "to stimulate and enlighten the electorate and sell public support for the programs he needs." Brooke added that to wait a year for the full report of the President's Commission, of which he is a member, might prove disastrous. "In a year," he warned, "we could have insurrection. The cities could be burning...
...authorized the Fed action, Chairman William McChesney Martin, has recently stated that the "main need of the economy" is prompt action by Congress on the Administration's tax plan. Because there is always considerable opposition in Congress against such unpopular tax proposals, it is one that much be hard pushed. Otherwise, the Fed will have to depend on its own monetary solutions. No doubt Congress will reduce the 10 per cent figure to six or eight per cent before voting on it; even at 10 per cent it is no panacea: the tax hike will not eliminate the deficit...