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Moreover a draft would propel an already existing movement toward wasteful and dangerous militarism. Nunn and Co. argue somewhat smugly that even if the peaceniks bottle things up this year, we will eventually need conscription to supply the 200,000 additional troops mandated by Reagan's Pentagon bonanza--especially if demographic predictions hold and the pool of 18-year-olds drops in the future. Well, the point is that we don't need more soldiers, just as we don't need more new types of high-tech gadgetry that can't get off the ground...
...Washington, officials had little alternative but to swallow hard and accept their policy defeat. The U.S. was able to take some comfort in the fact that American firms will also benefit from the project. About half of the compressors used to propel gas through the pipeline are of U.S. design, and all of the 125 turbines driving them will be built by European firms under license from General Electric. In addition, the Soviets have decided to buy the equipment that will haul and lay the heavy sections of 56-inch pipe from the Caterpillar Tractor...
Meanwhile, Economist Henry Kaufman of the New York investment banking firm of Salomon Brothers, whose pessimistic yearlong predictions of ever higher rates have proved unnervingly accurate, delivered yet another gloomy forecast. He warned a group of corporate financial officers in New York that Government borrowing will propel the cost of money to new and higher peaks in the next six months or so. Said he: "A noose is now tightening around the credit markets...
...Netherlands. Having built Rotterdam's containership terminal into a key operation of the world's biggest and busiest deepwater port, Swarttouw took command three years ago of Holland's weak and floundering Fokker aircraft company and promptly set about developing a strategy to propel it into the front ranks of the world's airframe manufacturers...
...just as quick to hand out compliments as the friendly barbs and banter thrown around the locker room. "My job as co-captain is to keep Betty under control--no really Betty and I tend to propel one another. She is an ideal person for the job; she gets the work done, isn't flashy, exudes pride and leadership and inspires...