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Earlier this month the government announced a series of reflationary measures aimed at perking up the economy. Mandatory deposits on new cars are to be lowered from 25% to 20%; finance companies can increase lending capacity by 10%; the building sector, hardest hit of all, will be stimulated by a variety of credit improvements. In addition, a three-year-old price freeze on industrial products will be reduced and export incentives increased. If exports increase, these measures may help bring the budget closer to balance-a hope to which the French always cling. Analysts reckon that the deficit will grow...
Lovelier Windows. At 11 a.m. on the first day of battle in response to a plea from Nasser, Jordan opened a second front. Mortar and artillery shells rumbled down from the heights of Arab Jerusalem to splatter the Israeli sector of the divided city. Longer-range guns reached across Israel's narrow waist to hit the outskirts of Tel Aviv, and Syrian guns opened up on northern Israeli towns from the hills overlooking the Sea of Galilee. But it was Jerusalem, the Israeli capital, that took the worst damage the Arabs inflicted on the Jews in the whole war. Most...
...Reynolds, "no government money is a gift." Harvard does not solicit the government the way it does the private sector. When a Harvard school wins a federal grant under the Higher Education Facilities Act to build classrooms, the money does not go through the gift office. It does, however, reduce the goal which a drive must achieve...
...political and politico-military aspects of the less-developed areas of the world. I wanted to learn more about economics, basic to all our foreign policy interests and involvements, and be able to better relate them to political and security considerations. I also felt that if the private sector didn't commit more of its resources to the development effort, you could forget about closing the gap between the rich northern nations and the poor southern ones. So I audited courses in development theory at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and courses in practical international involvement by free...
...with 14 Vatican diplomats and curial officials. Archbishop Justinus Darmajuwana, 52, of Semarang, becomes the first Indonesian to sit in the college; German-born Archbishop Jose Clemente Maurer, 67, of Sucre will be the first Bolivian. Berlin's Archbishop Alfred Bengsch, who by choice lives in the Eastern sector of the divided city, will be, at 45, the youngest cardinal...