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...producer nations are now planning cartels, modeled after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, to set and enforce minimum prices. Chile, Peru, Zaire and Zambia have tried to organize a copper cartel, and seven nations, including Australia, Guinea, Jamaica and Yugoslavia, recently formed the International Bauxite Association to prop up prices for that ore, which is used to make aluminum. Most commodity producers, however, lack the religious, ethnic and cultural unity of the Arab oil producers, and it remains to be seen whether their efforts can counteract the law of supply and demand, which is now pushing prices down...
...Strong Prop. In Greenspan's view, there is only a small risk that budget cutting will bring on a deep recession, largely because business capital spending will keep a strong prop under the economy. Manufacturers expect to spend almost 20% more for new plant and equipment than last year. In fact, Greenspan thinks that a tight budget policy eventually could help to revive the economy. Business is being held down, he believes, partly by the effects of inflation fueled by the big budget deficits and easy-money policies of the past...
...Union, refused to protect a democratic government that was neutral, and jumped to side with Turkey when it seemed possible to lure them more into the U.S. camp and further from the Soviet Union. It held true in Vietnam and Korea, where Kissinger and Nixon chose to continue to prop up and arm dictatorships rather than risk the Communist appeal in democratic elections...
...autograph freaks, inundated with requests for magic lessons and invited to appear on TV. In some respects, it is a return to the good old days and a few of the bad ones. Successful show magicians still live out of hotel rooms making tense one-night stands. A broken prop remains a major disaster, and one rude kid who announces that the coin is up the left sleeve can ruin an evening...
...middle-class or middlebrow, even for those prop erly defined as belonging to either group, often seems conventional, complacent and confining, which may be why their tastes in books and movies run ? at a safe distance from reality ? to behavior or opinions more blatant than their own. Middle leads naturally to mediocre, a word that takes its roots from what is middling and therefore ordinary. Yet Aristotle, judging the temperaments of men, exalted the intermediate and argued that anything more extreme was either excess or defect. To him there was, for example, a desirable quality called bravery...