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Only "Stagnation." The critical question is whether the inventory shrinkage, which is spotty so far, will widen into a sharp downtrend before easier credit and federal deficit spending again pump up business-and prices. Many economists expect the inventory gain to slip to an annual rate of about $9.5 billion during the first three months of this year. Even so, few predict anything worse for the economy than what Leon Keyserling, former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, calls "a period of stagnation." With federal, state and local government spending on the rise, with housing starting...
...reacting to rather than anticipating an event. Administration officials would have done better to acknowledge earlier on their own initiative what every military expert has long known was inevitable: that some civilians would be killed in U.S. raids. In failing to do so, they not only helped to widen the "credibility gap," which is already causing Lyndon Johnson considerable trouble at home, but enabled Hanoi to use the Salisbury reports to stir up a virulent new round of anti-Americanism from London to New Delhi. Even France's normally prudent Le Monde declared that "not a day passes...
...thus puzzled by the slogan. Poor outcastes think of every new baby not as another mouth to feed but as a potential breadwinner for the family. Moslem mullahs (religious teachers) will not urge their believers to practice birth control for fear that the Hindus will go on proliferating and widen their population and political advantage...
...willingness of the U.S. government to grant passports to American scholars and journalists who wish to travel to mainland China, and other U.S. moves to widen communications with the Chinese, have elicited no answer whatsoever from Peking, Fairbank said...
Coach Floyd Wilson, who sat almost motionless throughout the massacre, began to substitute freely. Bench strength could be the key to the big season optimists talk about, and the second line continued to widen the lead...