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...crisis and ignored him while consulting Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. De Gaulle explained that his policy was to assure that at least one Western nation (his own) would remain on friendly terms with the Arabs. He also told Kiesinger about his feeling that Russia is now an inward-looking, sluggish bear and that the real threat to world peace these days comes from U.S. attempts to police the world. De Gaulle had, though, one consolation for Americans: "I feel neither aversion nor hostility toward...
...tonic is expected to come from the U.S. Blaming the sluggish U.S. economy on a delayed reaction to last year's tight money policy, the OECD sees "a quite sharp pickup, particularly in the later months" of 1967. There are, of course, uncertainties: should lagging production severely crimp corporate profits and personal paychecks, a revival will be long in coming. If all goes well, the OECD countries can expect that "at least by the end of this year, a more normal rate of growth will have been resumed, which should then continue into...
...Harpaz, this suggested a simple solution: instead of in early April, hybrid corn should not be sown in Israel until late May. Thus when the seedlings emerged early in June, he reasoned, the few viruses left in the plant hoppers' salivary glands would be too sluggish to infect the corn...
Profit, Not Bigness. So far Hathaway, who came to Velsicol two years ago, has outperformed his leader. When he arrived, Velsicol already had superior research facilities and a broad line of agricultural and industrial chemicals and resins. But it was family-owned and vertically run, suffered from sluggish marketing. Hathaway horizontalized operations; he split the company into three domestic and two international divisions and set higher sales targets. "We're reaching for $100 million," he says, "but $200 million in sales is proper for a structure of this size, and $800 million is about maximum. Our objective...
...Louis fight right along with them. "Some swear by the Globe," says former Mayor Raymond Tucker, now professor of urban affairs at Washington University, "and some swear by the Post-Dispatch." And some swear at them. "Unfair, reactionary, hip-shooting" are epithets commonly hurled at the Globe. "Sluggish, effete, unpatriotic" are some of the names the Post-Dispatch is called. "The kindest word our critics use is liberal," says P-D Architectural Writer George McCue...