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...Cities is doing some great things, and given the opportunity, it should do more. This is precisely what City Hall fears most-that successful programs will develop their own lives, and that once Model Cities fades out of the picture, the city government may have to pick up the slack with ever-increasing expenditures further straining the budget...
...extra degree of unemployment and economic slack?enough to make the most skilled workers fear loss of their jobs if they demand higher wages and to make employers pale at the thought of the markets they will lose if they raise prices. In the U.S. the degree of economic slack required is proving considerably larger than anyone had expected. Prices continue to rise even though almost a fourth of the nation's factory capacity is idle...
Britain, too, is having second thoughts about the proposed sale of 188 Centurion tanks to Libya. British public opinion, already roiled by the prospect of a resumption of sales to South Africa, would strongly condemn the deployment of Centurions against Israel. But once again, Moscow may take up the slack if the British kill the sale...
...dipping into unreserved capital funds. Season ticket sales have taken a slight fall, because, in the words of an orchestra spokesman, "When the economy is bad, some people hold off renewing." Nonethe less, BSO concerts, normally close to selling out, and radio and television revenue helps take up the slack...
...Manhattan's Olympia. San Diego's Greenleaf Classics churns out 36 titles a month, each with a 30,000 print order. "I have never lost money on a sex book," says Bill Hambling, Greenleafs chief. Many smut books are printed in regular union shops during the slack early-morning hours; shops sometimes charge five times as much to print hard-core porn as regular books...