Word: slowdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon's plans to pull out a total of perhaps 100,000 by year's end. The Administration has said that further withdrawals will depend partly on a decrease in the level of fighting. Thus, Hanoi's decision to intensify the fighting may well prompt a slowdown in the U.S. reduction of forces...
...Alexander Dubček last April, the nation gradually sank into the depths of despair and sullenness. The factory workers who a year ago volunteered for weekend "Dubček shifts" without pay, in order to boost production, are today blatantly loafing on the job and pilfering supplies. The slowdown has made a mockery of practically every state-prescribed quota. By the end of April, for example, only 11% of this year's construction targets had been completed. There is a shortage of many consumer goods. In a rare bit of candor for Czechoslovakia's tightly supervised press...
...unions that represent 6,500 employees. M.T.A. officials feel that the old private owners of the L.I.R.R. allowed the unions to run the railroad and perpetuate featherbedding. Union men fear that the M.T.A. intends to eliminate jobs. A legacy of labor-management bitterness has been left by a slowdown last summer in the Dunton car-repair shop, which has never returned to its old operating pace, and a week of wildcat strikes and slowdowns that greeted the introduction of a new timetable last fall. One commuter recently phoned for train information and was told by a recorded voice that...
...months. Paul McCracken, the President's chief economist, rather charitably calls that tense period of waiting and watching "the awkward months." Last week, seven months after Washington's policymakers set the anti-inflationary course of tight money and tough budgeting, there were indications that the economic slowdown is starting...
...least temporary relief, it is negotiating in Washington for the second fare in crease this year. Air travel has traditionally reflected the ups and downs of the U.S. economy, since, as one air line executive puts it, "vacation dollars are expendable dollars." Inflation and the incipient economic slowdown have cut into travel for both business and pleasure. In the first six months of 1969, passenger travel rose 11% from the 1968 level, 4% less than anticipated. During June, six of the eleven trunk carriers reported significantly lower increases...