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When their industry was in its youth, computer men lived in a world of their own, immune to most of the gyrations of the rest of the economy. Now the industry is well established, and to its dismay is no longer insulated from such problems as the general business slowdown, reductions in federal contracts, stiffening competition and tight money...
...good faith in the negotiations and partly because state police had been on campus looking for legal violations. BAM issued a call for a moratorium on picketing and disruptions over the weekend, although the strike was still in effect. To maintain the spirit of the strike during the tactical slowdown. BAM sponsored twice-a-day rallies, which included the singing of improvised lyrics...
Last week's outbreak of "fatigue" among the controllers, the cause of the third air-traffic snarl in 20 months, had been forecast by PATCO a week in advance. Like the massive "slowdown" of the summer of 1968, the "sick-out" was another tactic in Bailey's continuing campaign to win PATCO recognition as sole bargainer for the controllers. The cause célèbre this time was the fate of three activist PATCO members in the FAA's Baton Rouge control tower. The agency has been trying to transfer the three for months...
More and Less. The cut reflected two factors. The business slowdown that the Administration has engineered in order to fight inflation has at last begun to reduce corporations' loan demands. Also, the Federal Reserve System, after many months of holding growth of the U.S. money supply to zero, has recently begun pumping some new funds into the economy. Arthur Burns, appointed by Nixon to head the Federal Reserve, has been encouraging a relaxation of the credit tourniquet since he took over in February. Even before the prime-rate cut, the combination of more money available and less demand...
...that since Nixon stuck to existing court decisions, the results would be greatest in the rural South, where de jure segregation persists in some areas. Once that ended, so would all school segregation there, since residential segregation is negligible. In larger Southern cities, the consequence could be a marked slowdown in desegregation, since putting an end to de jure segregation alone would still leave neighborhood schools reflecting the extensive housing segregation of the urban South. In such cases, where there is both de jure and de facto segregation, Nixon would eliminate de jure segregation "without insisting on a remedy...