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...some drawbacks. A study by Otto Eckstein's Data Resources Inc. notes that it would slow the economic recovery by slightly increasing prices. This would crimp sales and production and thus retard a return to full employment. The study estimates that with the VAT the jobless rate at the end of 1973 would be an estimated 5%, v. 4.8% without it. The VAT will meet determined opposition in Congress. Democrats and labor chiefs see it as another regressive levy that adds unfairly to the burden of the poor and the lower middle class. But whatever happens...
...Swiss surgeon who won both reputation and fortune by trying to lead his celebrity patients to the fountain of youth; in Montreux, Switzerland. In 1931 Niehans developed his so-called "cellular therapy," in which particles of lamb embryos were injected into the patient; he claimed that the treatment would retard the aging process, and cure almost everything from homosexuality to heart disease. Though viewed with suspicion by many fellow doctors, Niehans counted among his grateful patients Pope Pius XII and Gloria Swanson...
...laboratory animals by underfeeding them and thus delaying maturation. This phenomenon, they believe, occurs because a smaller intake of food results in the formation of fewer cross linkages?connecting rods that link together and partly immobilize the long protein and nucleic acid molecules essential to life. If scientists can retard cross linking in man, they may well slow his aging process. Scientists also hope that they can some day do away with disease, genetically breeding out hereditary defects while breeding in new immunities to bacterial and other externally caused ailments. Finally, they look forward?in the distant future and with...
...Netherlands' economists forecast for this year a rise in unemployment, a lower yield on invested capital, a drop in investments and a worsening balance of payments. A six-month freeze in wages has been imposed by the government to retard a 4% price rise. Dutch Minister of Social Affairs Bouke Roolvink recently went shopping with a disgruntled huisvrouw who had challenged him to stay within her inflation-socked budget. At the checkout counter he came up red-faced and $6 short...
...showed more than half of the forest to be very severely damaged. Over large areas, most of the trees appeared dead and bamboo had spread over the ground. A danger in this is that the invading bamboo species may be essentially worthless and very expensive to eradicate. Bamboo will retard the reestablishment of forest trees, at least for many decades. A further hazard is that large amounts of nutrient minerals previously tied up in forest vegetation may have been released and leached out of sprayed forests by the heavy tropical rains." The danger from this "nutrient dumping" is that...