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NATHAN: I think that a meaningful turndown in the consumer price index is not going to be visible for another six months or eight months. We have built in a set of developments that we are not going to get rid of very easily. Almost every Government regulatory commission is literally inundated. They are almost impossibly burdened with handling the consequences of the very substantial rise in interest rates and other costs. This is just one manifestation of the pervasive nature of inflation...
Surprising Turndown. Last week the government responded to a reform long urged by the U.S. by finally doing something about the blatant corruption that has traditionally attached to the powerful and tempting "warlord" posts of the corps commanders. It appointed as IV Corps (the Delta) commander General Nguyen Due Thang, the country's onetime pacification chief, who is generally regarded as one of the ablest, brightest and most honest officers in the Vietnamese army. He replaces General Nguyen Van Manh, a portly, indecisive officer who has presided over the steady disintegration of the government's Delta position...
Credibility Gap. There are plenty of reasons for the British disenchantment with Wilson: the turndown of Britain's application to the Common Market, Britain's shrinking role as a world power, the retreat from East of Suez, austerity at home and the feeling that Wilson has equivocated in his statements to the country-a Wilsonian credibility gap that is equal to Lyndon Johnson's. Wilson has heatedly denounced "the defeatist cries, the moaning minnies, the wet editorials," but he seems unable to halt his rapid slide. A new national poll released last week...
...publisher after publisher turned him down-and with good reason. Not that his price was too high. Indeed, he was asking for no money at all. And his manuscript was certainly topical: it was a copy in Russian of Svetlana Stalina's memoirs. Reason for the publishers' turndown: they all knew that the legal rights to the book had already been sold for a record $3,200,000 to other U.S. and British publishers, who plan to bring it out in October under the title Twenty Letters to a Friend...
...precludes those subtle soundings that make it unnecessary ever to say that devastatingly face-destroying word "no." The Chinese, Thai and Burmese have no word at all for "no"-leaving one to interpret from context, facial expression or some other nuance whether or not "perhaps" is a flat turndown...