Word: slowdowns
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These inflationary flutters are keenly felt by the sensitive and watchful Federal Reserve Board, and they serve in general to make the board less reluctant to risk an economic slowdown by stepping up interest rates. Lately it has issued warnings about that possibility in the hope of talking businessmen out of overbuying, or boosting prices too much. Though the board is usually as secretive and unpredictable as the CIA, broad hints that it may soon tighten money were voiced last week by three insiders-the presidents of the New York and Cleveland Federal Reserve banks and the board...
...disaster week continued with a slowdown strike by pilots of India's domestic airlines and the sudden collapse of the state government of Kerala, where 15 Congress Party legislators joined the opposition Socialists and Communists in voting against Kerala's chief minister, who is accused of corruption. Shastri imposed direct presidential rule on Kerala, at least until elections can be held next year. When that happens there is a good chance that the Communists-though divided into pro-Peking and pro-Moscow wings -may again win control as they...
...Slowdown. The Arab boycott is a nuisance to Israel, if only because it deprives Israel of the Arab market, a $50 million export area that would normally be its most obvious customer. Israel's other major irritant is the refusal of the international oil companies to defy the Arab trade ban-for obvious reasons. Despite the boycott, Israel's little economy continues to grow. The gross national product has more than doubled, to almost $2.5 billion, since the boycott began; foreign currency reserves have tripled, to $600 million. Most important, foreign investment in Israel goes on unchecked...
...Communist terror against civilians continued. But in military operations, it was the sixth consecutive week of only scattered and brief engagements, which the Viet Cong broke off with surprising readiness. One explanation: the guerrilla commanders, concerned by threats of stepped-up U.S. intervention, had ordered a temporary slowdown. Besides, it was the rice-planting season in the Mekong Delta, and many a part-time guerrilla was needed at home...
...most serious slowdown is not always delay in the courts- the months or years it can take a case to come to trial. Too often the problem is delay in the law's enforcement-the interminable minutes it can take to reach the police. In an age of computers and digit dialing, it may be easier to phone "Hiya" to a pal in Addis Ababa than to call "Help" to a cop a few blocks away...