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Hayes said the host countries are anxious to get foreign investment. He recalled the case of a Middle East oil-producing government that was forcing a foreign firm to increase the annual output of oil so that the country's GNP would increase...
...longevity and the quantity of his output are astonishing, even more so is the quality of his work. His seventy-fifth novel is as fresh and as funny as his fiftieth, or his first, and not very different from either. Wodehouse has been lucky and talented enough to have found a formula for comedy that works; and he has been wise enough not to deviate from that formula in well over half a century of writing...
...terms of the numbers that mean most to businessmen, workers, consumers and investors, 1971 was a distinctly disappointing year. Real gross national product-the value of output minus the cost of inflation -rose by an anemic 3%, about half the rise that is normal for the first year of recovery from a recession. The rate of price increases declined only slowly before the freeze, averaging around 4% for the year v. 5.5% in 1970. Unemployment climbed to a peak of 6.2% in May, and hung stubbornly close to that level for most of the year. The combination of unemployment...
...Nigeria is full of boom talk, and the country has enormous economic potential. It is rich in cash crops -cocoa, peanuts, palm oil, coal and iron ore. Most important is oil, which was discovered there in 1956. With a current output of 1,700,000 bbl. a day, Nigeria has passed Iraq and Canada to become the world's ninth largest oil producer. The government's share of the profits is expected to surpass $1 billion this year and $1.25 billion next year...
...gave Russian workers the speedup back in 1935 has resurfaced. Alexei Stakhanov became Stalin's original "shock worker" by producing 102 tons of coal in a six-hour shift-eleven times the norm. Soviet officials then used the high output of dedicated "Stakhanovites" as a pretext to raise production quotas for everyone. Now 66, Stakhanov told Pravda that there was too much emphasis on production statistics, "machines, automation, percentages and tons." When it came time to praise the workers, he said, he had seen party officials giving out awards while sneaking glances at their wristwatches. "Praise should...