Word: saving
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With that, the President moved to stanch the dollar drain with the most Draconian measures yet. He outlined a five-point program aimed at cutting the deficit by $3 billion in the year ahead. Principal features: a reduction in U.S. investment abroad, particularly in Western Europe, to save $1 billion; a cutback in U.S. loans to foreigners to save $500 million; scaled-down Government expenditures overseas-by the Pentagon, by heavily staffed U.S. embassies and by G.I.s and their dependents-to save $500 million; deferment for two years of all but what the President called "the most important, urgent...
...only a temporary save; not even the Kremlin wanted to openly defy the groundswell of popular disenchantment with Novotný in Czechoslovakia. Last week the party's 200-man plenum, the Central Committee, met and declared the end for Novotný. Though its communiqué allowed him to "resign" and mechanically praised his accomplishments, the plenum fired Novotný as party leader, the country's most powerful post, leaving him only in the figurehead role of President. Into Novotný's place stepped the man who engineered the ouster. He is Alexander...
Last-Minute Attempt. Novotný had desperately tried to save himself at the last moment by adopting a far more conciliatory line. In his New Year's message last week, he made important concessions to Czechoslovakia's restive Slovaks and promised rebellious Czech students and writers that he would permit the use of "progressive" ideas, even if they came from the West. For added effect, he also hinted that he would let the country's economic reformers resume their experiments with profits and price incentives to get the stalled economy moving again. It was a major turnabout...
...Cambridge fireman tried to save Swamy's notes by rushing into the burning building and throwing some papers out the window. They landed in the snow, however, and Swamy says he will have to wait until the snow melts to find them...
Henry C. Meadow, associate dean of Medicine for financial affairs, said that the cold room cultures were saved only by the "extraordinarily cooperative" work of the firemen. "The firemen spoke with the people in charge of the lab," Meadow said, "and tried to save the cold room material." Dr. Gill also praised the efforts of the B.&G. staff. According to Meadow, the loss was mainly in chemicals and instrumentation. "The basic materials were saved," he said...