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...hand laundries, with only a small enforcement mechanism. Now the operation has been streamlined into something much closer to what most economists had recommended all along. The Nixon Administration will restrict controls to the major companies that set the pace for the economy, and back the controls by tougher policing and the threat of well-publicized punishment...
That was a modest response to the smoldering nationalist resentment against "domination" of the Canadian economy by U.S. business. The Canadian Cabinet had considered much tougher proposals, which would have given Ottawa control over the flow of investment to start plants in Canada or expand subsidiaries already operating there. But the Cabinet rejected those ideas. Executives of U.S. companies that have poured $28 billion into Canada-mostly by setting up wholly owned subsidiaries instead of buying out Canadian companies-noted that the new policy will have no direct effect on their operations, or on the $1.8 billion in earnings that...
...PACINO scares people a little. It's not that they really believe he's like Michael Corleone, the ever colder, ever tougher youngest son he plays in The Godfather. But on the other hand, well...he was pretty damned convincing--that cool of his, that hard growing cool, was really too scary to seem anything but genuine. So here he is in the flesh, people can't help saying things like, "When you shot those two guys..." and "God, you sure wrecked that brother-in-law of yours...
Just how much difficulty the Crimson will have in disposing of this mangy pack is unclear, but if the gang from Cambridge is willing to believe its mentor. Jack Barnaby, it could be a tougher dogfight than expected...
That seems a minimum program to give the railroads a chance to pull out of their difficulties. It certainly will not solve all the problems: railroad management must learn more modern ways, and the Government must get tougher with rail unions that insist on featherbedding forever...