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When small problems in agriculture or industry fester into large ones, the Soviet bureaucracy revs up huge counterattacks that become economic overkill. Whenever Soviet grain harvests exceed expectations, for example, officials scour the countryside commandeering manpower and trucks from projects that they have to temporarily abandon...
...wages, unsanitary or hazardous working conditions and trade union leadership that executes management's dictates rather than representing employees. Drunkenness on the job and absenteeism were said to be chronic problems that often resulted in shoddy goods. Although workers were assigned quotas, there was little incentive to exceed them because once someone overproduced, everyone else was driven to work at the new level...
...conference will have to patch together some kind of further compromise. Meanwhile, the budget quarrel is delaying an extension of the time during which the Government can exceed the statutory ceiling on the national debt, needed soon if the Government is to continue paying its bills. At week's end the fractious Congress voted for an extension, but only for five days...
...high demand in the civilian economy. The size of each bonus is determined by a complex formula involving the person's base pay, the length of the re-enlistment and the scarcity of the skill. Bonuses can be collected only twice during a career and may not exceed $12,000, except for enlisted men in the Navy's nuclear service...
...this decade," he writes, "the demand for oil will exceed available supply. A crisis of industrial civilization may well occur long before global supplies are exhausted or even before the day consumption overtakes production." He sees the key to the oil situation not in the supply, which he believes will last several more decades, but in the control of distribution which the "Seven Sisters" of American oil now hold...