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...looming capital shortage poses a long-range threat to the survival of the nation's economic system. More immediately, it raises doubts about the economy's ability to recover with vigor from the postwar era's most severe recession and push unemployment down to about 5% of the work force and keep it at that level. Ultimately, capital formation, as the economists call it, is job formation. Any faltering of the pace at which the nation saves its earnings and invests its resources translates directly into reduced economic activity and fewer jobs. Yet the share of resources...
...important sense, the U.S. is now freed to make a new start, and to act with renewed vigor and judgment elsewhere in the world. But "putting Viet Nam behind us" may not be so easy, after all. Ending America's mental and emotional involvement may prove as hard as ending its physical involvement. The U.S. may have to live for some time with old?and new?nightmares...
...been asking for access to the ten volumes of evidence for a year and a half, but the police have refused us." Lowenstein told the Law School Forum audience. "Instead of that, what the police have done is to lie to the public with increasing vigor...
...economy to bump along close to its recession lows for many painful months before beginning a slow rise near the end of the year. But the majority opinion is that the slump will hit bottom in June or July, and that recovery will begin by summer and gain considerable vigor by the last three months...
...romantic and erotic involvements that was spun out as long ago as Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangeureuses and as recently as Bob and Carol & Ted and Alice. But Beatty has added a new twist: by making a hairdresser his central character, he has come up with a man whose vigor is representative of the virtues of the times. While in romance of the past, the gallant suitor parried with a deft sword or shot a pistol with deadly accuracy, George tucks his electric hairdryer into his belt as he jumps on his motorcycle on the way to a home appointment...