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...supply), John Maynard Keynes (liberal spending) and John Kenneth Galbraith (price control). Last week, still seeking an effective anti-inflation strategy, it went back to Adam Smith. In a bow to the oldtime, laissez-faire religion of reduced Government spending, the White House announced that it would try to trim more than $5 billion out of the budget for fiscal 1975, which starts this week. If the cuts are actually made, spending would still rise to a record $300 billion, but the deficit would drop from a projected $11 billion to $6 billion. The White House further announced that...
...exceeding production quotas. Last week Volkswagenwerk AG turned the bonus idea completely around by offering to pay employees at four of its six West German plants up to $3,600 for their immediate resignations. The company has been hit by a serious sales slump, and is trying to trim its workforce in the nicest way possible. Of the 106,000 eligible employees, only the first 2,700 to apply will be able to collect the payments, which include one month's salary, full vacation pay for this year and a lump sum based on the individual's wages...
Throughout his career, the trim, tall Cox, with his close-cropped gray hair and half-moon glasses, had steered an independent if unexceptional course. But, as The New York Times commented the week he was fired, "Before, few had thought of Archibald Cox as salty...
...Trim in his gray Finnish army uniform, General Ensio Siilasvuo inspected representatives of five nations facing him in Geneva's Palais des Nations last week. Groping for nonmilitary words that would truly express the emotion of the moment, the commander of the United Nations peace-keeping forces told them that they were taking "a giant and courageous step" that heralded "a new era of trust, justice and peace in the Middle East...
...quarter, private nonfarm productivity declined at an annual rate of 3.5% largely as a result of the severe first-quarter drop in real output of goods and services.* As is usual in times of an economic slowdown, both workers and machines operated below optimum efficiency because employers did not trim their work force as fast as they reduced production. The main cause of the productivity slump in the first quarter was that the gasoline crisis forced automakers to cut production of big, gas-drinking cars. Since auto manufacturing is one of the nation's largest and most productive industries...