Word: slowdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...European defense in West Germany. "Under no circumstances," he said, "must we back away from our buildup in Europe. The Russians are only taking the road they have on the test ban because the pressure has been kept on them. We must keep up that pressure. Any reduction or slowdown would be disastrous...
...Common Market's isolation from the rest of Europe, and for strategic reasons is increasingly uneasy at France's alienation of the U.S. The Six, urged Schréder, must "take a positive attitude" to the "Kennedy round" of tariff negotiations, "even if it means a slowdown in our internal development." France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, whose government is afraid of U.S. competition in Europe, repeatedly muttered "absurd" as Schréder and other foreign ministers pressed their case. However, Schréder had a potent weapon. France, Europe's lowest-cost agricultural...
There are sound reasons, say the doctors, for a slowdown in cutting the umbilical cord. Delay allows a gradual change from fetal to regular circulation without putting stress on blood vessels in the lungs and elsewhere in the body. The carefree manner in which the newly born infant is "disconnected" from his mother, concludes the report, "is in sharp contrast to the meticulous care with which the thoracic surgeon separates his patient from the heart-lung machine...
...Strong medicine has not cured all that ails SIAM. It must still import such simple parts as windshield wipers (paying 250% duty) because the local product is so shoddy. Last year a Peronist-oriented union, pushing for wage increases, led a slowdown that temporarily reduced automobile output from 36 cars to four cars a day. But retrenchment has left SIAM lithe and ready for fresh expansion. With the philosophy of a patriot who feels that Argentina has only one way to go, Clutterbuck says: "My country is at the bottom of the hill. Now we start to climb the other...
...million budget deficit, has been forced to raise cigarette and gasoline taxes and promise to raise fares on its debt-ridden national railways to qualify for a $50 million IMF loan. Inflation-racked Indonesia wants $30 million, and the IMF will probably demand a stern austerity program and a slowdown in military spending.* Seeking $100 million, nearly bankrupt Brazil has pledged to cut its rate of inflation in half this year-from 60% to 30%. But that is not enough for the IMF; though most economists consider it an impossibility, the IMF is insisting that Brazil slash inflation...