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...billboard says, in English and French, THANK YOU FOR YOUR VISIT. The latest and biggest package tour to arrive at Kabul Airport looks set for a long visit. The Soviet army has pitched a tent city there. Its equipment includes hundreds of helicopters, scores of giant Antonov and Ilyushin transport aircraft, spotter planes, radar trucks, tanks, artillery, antiaircraft batteries, radio rigs, armored personnel carriers, lines of trucks, gasoline tankers, innumerable smaller vehicles. Huge transports, some in Aeroflot's blue and white paint, others in military silver, come and go. The view from the departure lounge and the airport tearoom...
Company executives hope that the cruise will now be a harbinger of more Government business. Even though the House Armed Services Committee last week voted to block funding of the Pentagon's $6 billion to $7 billion C-X transport plane program planned for the mid-1980s, engineers are at work on designs and mockups. The new plane would be used for the rapid transport of forces to hot spot areas like the Middle East. Says...
Heady with the euphoria of the early jet age in the 1960s and expecting one or more big Government contracts like the C-5A transport plane, the TFX fighter aircraft or the SST supersonic, Boeing grew fat and sloppy. Seattle's nickname for the firm was particularly apt: "The Lazy B." The company plunged ahead anyway and kept turning out short-haul 737 and 747 jumbos amid bottlenecks and shortages. Then the market collapsed due to the 1969 recession and earnings slumped, from $83 million in 1968 to $10 million the following year. Boeing in the late 1960s...
...invented the "discomfort index," the sum of the rates of unemployment and inflation. Okun's abiding concern was to control inflation without triggering recession and its grim results for the poor. Economic efficiency, he believed, must yield somewhat to social equality, or as he put it: "Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket...
...country was also shaken by a major financial-political scandal, culminating in the arrest of 39 prominent bankers and businessmen on charges of embezzlement and other irregularities. Italy has Western Europe's highest inflation rate (21.7%); unemployment stands at 7.7%. A rash of labor strikes has disrupted transport, newspaper and hotel services and left the streets of Italy's major cities piled high with uncollected garbage...