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...Soviets benefited from what they accurately enough called this "crisis of capitalism." From their oil exports, mostly to the West but also to their East European allies, the Soviets earned $2 billion last year. However, Russia will rapidly scrape the limits of its self-sufficiency if it is to meet plans to expand its petrochemical industry and treble auto ownership (to 9 million cars) by 1980. Soon the Soviets will have to restrict oil sales and greatly increase the preferential prices that they charge to their Comecon partners. Last year Poland reportedly had to buy a large amount of Libyan...
...years after scandals that enveloped it during 1972, ITT Corp., the giant multinational conglomerate, finds itself in a new scrape. Last week the Federal Trade Commission charged that the ITT Continental Baking Co. Inc., a subsidiary and the nation's biggest baker, had engaged in illegal pricing practices to monopolize markets for its Wonder bread. The FTC asked that Continental be divided into two or more separate firms; in effect, ITT would have to sell off half of the subsidiary...
...funds could run out within six months. Out in suburban Bloomfield Hills and Grosse Pointe, meanwhile, auto executives gloomily ponder the prospect that normally generous year-end bonuses will be painfully thin this year. Says one Ford executive: "If there's no bonus, we'll have to scrape...
...example, most people believe America's farmworkers are migrants, following harvests from state to state. Chavez and his supporters have continually repeated this to the public. "Most farmworkers are members of families who scrape together marginal livings by following the crops around the U.S.," reads a pamphlet distributed by Chavez boycott organizers in Phoenix...
...Olympic caliber coach for the Harvard ski team but the Department of Athletics couldn't scrape enough money together to pay him," Carter said...