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...When he took over the top job at Volkswagen's Wolfsburg headquarters in 1971, Leiding recognized that the basic Beetle, essentially a 1937 design, was steadily losing consumer appeal, and he moved quickly to develop new models to replace it. Unfortunately, the oil crisis and the subsequent economic slowdown hit just as Leiding was rolling out his new cars. Caught in a classic revenue squeeze, Leiding started jacking up the price of the Beetle, which now costs $2,895 in the U.S., up 16% in the past year. Then, when sales plummeted, Leiding cut production, trimmed the payroll...
...accurate atomic clocks that they rely on to keep the exact time do not get ahead of the less dependable earth. Since leap seconds were introduced in 1972, four have been added, and even more can be expected in the future as the earth continues its gradual slowdown...
During most of the nation's yearlong slide into recession, the strongest element in the economy was businessmen's willingness to spend on new equipment and expanded facilities. Companies were eager to buy because they expected the slowdown to be short and shallow, and as recently as last month the backlog of orders for capital goods still stood at a healthy total of $75.5 billion. Those orders and the pent-up corporate demand that they represent have served as a welcome moderating influence on the depth and duration of the recession...
...been going on longer than anyone thought, and that the age of the universe was at least 16 billion years, or roughly 4 billion to 6 billion years older than earlier estimates. Even more important, the redshift measurements of nearby galaxies gave no indication of any significant gravitational slowdown in the outward rush of the galaxies. "It's a terrible surprise," says Sandage, who for years had been leading proponent of the idea that the universe would eventually close in on itself...
...union leaders and consumers take it for granted that they can always count on the Government to intervene to prop up jobs, incomes and profit. Reflation now, they say, might produce a momentary upturn, but it would only lead to another round of price rises, another consumer panic, another slowdown in business investment-and a more devastating bust. They worry that...