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* Fixed guidepost standards, based on an average level of productivity increase are poorly coordinated with our economy's cyclical fluctuations. Productivity rises fastest in the early periods of an upswing when inflationary pressure is relatively slight. Labor costs and wage pressures start increasing more rapidly than productivity when the country...
We'll Call You. Though traditions in some countries forbid brokers to advertise or openly solicit customers, the U.S. firms have built a big clientele and aggressively hold onto it. A German broker seldom phones his customers-and charges them 20 pfennigs for each call when he does-but...
Eyewitnesses to Fu's execution are baffled when the corpse count of London's foggy Limehouse district shows an alarming upswing. The victims are strangled with crimson Tibetan prayer scarves, the weapons favored by "a gang of Burmese dacoits." Scotland Yard Man Nayland Smith (Nigel Green) thoughtfully eyes...
Activity by the main rebel group, the National Liberation Front, which operates out of nearby Yemen, had been on the upswing ever since August. It was then that a London conference to prepare plans for a South Arabian federation, which is due to gain independence in 1968, broke down in...
For openers, De Gaulle personally vetoed the provisional permission, issued by the French Foreign Office last September, for the U.S. to reopen its consulate in Tahiti. The consulate had been closed after World War II for economy reasons, and the U.S. said it wanted to reopen it because of the...