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...approximately the results expected this year, money supply must increase 12% to accommodate both. If it grows more slowly, then either production or inflation?or both?must slow down. A few economists fear that the bite will come out of production, and they oppose anything but a very gradual slowdown in money growth. "Anyone who calls for a sharper cut," says Arthur Okun, "is advocating recession, and he should come...
...recession is roughly defined as two consecutive quarters of real decline in the gross national product. Most of the six U.S. recessions since World War II have started with high interest rates' causing a slowdown in housing. Then; came reduced consumer spending and cutbacks in business outlays for plant and equipment. Even if the prospective recession follows that traditional pattern, though, most economists now believe it will be comparatively mild and not a repetition of the severe downturn...
...Peoples, co-head shop steward for the Harvard dining halls, said yesterday the kitchen workers do not plan a walkout or work slowdown to protest the contract, but "are going to start compiling demands for the next contract...
...California, where the rise in housing prices has been stratospheric, couples have long been willing to sell their souls to the savings and loan - and rent out mother-in-law for window cleaning - in order to realize their dry-wall dreams. But now there are definite signs of slowdown in that willingness to shell out small for tunes for not-so-special homes...
John Sereda, assistant circulation manager for The Globe, said yesterday any suggestion of a deliberate slowdown on the part of the drivers was "absolutely false" and attributed the delivery delay to a new driver on the route who has had trouble getting used to the schedule...