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Undoubtedly, large estates operate more productively than a group of small farmers, unless the peasants form successful cooperatives. A fall-off in production would likely increase Peru's economic squeeze. Food imports may well increase while earnings from sugar and cotton could now shrink. That would be all the more painful; Peru has already lost U.S. aid and scared off private investment with its seizure...
...today, which means that a man must earn 26% more after taxes to buy the same goods. This year the erosion in purchasing power has sharply accelerated. A dollar received as recently as January is worth only 960 now, and at the current rate of price increases will shrink to about 920 by Christmas...
...street, folks"--would be glad to examine it for him. Martin's parents thanked the Dean and took Martin across the street. There he was examined by a sweet old lady who was not a full psychiatrist but a psychiatric social worker or, as Martin put it, a shrink-trainee (which sounded to him like some kind of seafood dish, but he didn't pursue the comparison any further.) Anyway, she told Martin's parents and Martin that he masn't really in bad shape (mind you, she was only a trainee) and that all he needed was to take...
...Cliffies). Afterwards, Martin came back to Harvard and aced all his finals, salvaging an almost-Group III average ("You'll do fine next term," said the Dean) and actually enjoying life occasionally. He sailed with full colors into he second term, in good spirits and, according to his lady shrink-trainee, in excellent mental health...
...NASA budget is down to $3.8 billion from its $5.9 billion 1966 peak. The army of skilled craftsmen, whom Wernher Von Braun calls 90% of NASA's investment, has dwindled from a high of 400,000 to half that number. At current attrition rates, the force will shrink...