Word: scrappings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arthur Okun, also a member of TIME's Board and a senior fellow at Brookings, feels that the economy should be restrained somewhat, but not nearly as drastically as Ford recommends. Okun's prescription: either scrap the $394.2 billion ceiling, allow spending to rise to $407 billion or so and keep the proposed $10 billion tax cut; or drop the tax cut and let spending increase to around $417 billion...
...study endorsed by the CEA concludes that business fixed investment would have to rise to an annual rate of about 12% of G.N.P. between now and 1980-v. less than 9.5% expected for 1976-in order to create the jobs needed for full employment. The alternative would be to scrap present laws that call for significant further improvement in pollution controls, which require large investments. The nation would also have to forget about achieving "relative energy independence"-modestly defined as holding oil imports to the 1973-74 level of 36% of domestic consumption. That will require still more investment...
...this English volume was made from Alexander Afanasev's classic mid-19th century collection. First published in the U.S. 30 years ago, the book has now been reprinted under the somewhat misleading rubric Russian Fairy Tales. Actually, the stories include animal fables and laconic anecdotes illustrating some scrap of peasant wisdom...
...economical to reprocess scrap materials-something impossible...
...them a notice of each murder, with a picture of one part of his body cut from a full-length photograph of himself. Minos has a glass eye and sees only half of what most people see, an idea with a potentially interesting connection to the sending of one scrap of his picture at a time or to the imposition of a strict moral standard on victims of only one sex. He also daylights as a nurse, another fact with possible relevance to half-vision and schizophrenia. Verneuil just lets these ideas dangle; as a result, his killer seems more...