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...dependent on a resolution of the fighting in Africa. Already the junta has gone beyond what Spinola last month envisioned for the three territories: a loose federation with Lisbon. Full independence is now regarded as inevitable. Talks have already begun in London with the representatives of insurgents in Guinea, smallest of the territories and the one that Portugal finds it easiest to set free...
...hundred ninety-five of the 730 Faculty members voted in the election, the smallest turnout ever for a council election...
...defects, but there is no central heating. Two space heaters fight a losing battle against the damp cold of a Norman winter. "The chimney is cracked, and the mayor won't repair anything," she says. "The septic tank smells terrible, and we're crowded together. My two smallest children sleep in the same bedroom as my husband and I." Their grounds are ample, however. The Maugards are able to eat their own chickens, turkeys and rabbits, as well as vegetables from their garden...
Productivity has also been impeded because management in recent years has not built enough new plants or replaced obsolescent equipment. The lack of modern capacity has caused some productivity lags in railroads, steel and other industries. Of the eight leading industrial nations, the U.S. has been reinvesting the smallest portion of its gross national product on new plants and equipment, about 10%. Japan has been plowing back nearly 20%, Germany and France 15%. Businessmen have not been able to invest as much as they might like in productive machines in recent years, partly because of a profits squeeze...
...even the smallest, the most tender of the animals has forgotten the small place, the walls of his touch...