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...liberal task now is to consolidate and extend these gains and to overcome the resistance they have engendered. If there is a shortage of hospital beds and of nurses and of medical services, let us be sure that people understand that it is because this sector of the economy has been starved for years. And let us do something about that. Let us fight the backlash not by watching and on occasion deploring the onslaught on Adam Clayton Powell but by pressing for the next steps against bigotry and misunderstanding and segregated communities and schools and restricted housing...
White Revolution. Through the Shah's "White Revolution" (so called because it is bloodless), Iran's 25 million people now enjoy a robust economy, with an industrial sector that grew by 17% in the past year. Foreign investment, once almost nonexistent, has advanced to $186 million a year, and exports in the past decade have quadrupled to $1.3 billion. In the past 18 months, Iran has signed long-term trade and military deals with both East and West involving nearly $3 billion; the latest provides for the exchange of Iranian oil for $40 million worth of Rumanian grain...
Even as the Administration was feeling the discomfort of an economic credibility gap on Capitol Hill, it received some good news from the private sector. On Wednesday, New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. reduced the prime interest rate that it charges its best business customers from 5¾% to 5½%. Coming almost two months to the clay since the Chase Manhattan set off a controversy by cutting its prime rate to the same level, Morgan's action is expected to be followed by most of the country's commercial banks. Their action, it is hoped...
...American's rich NASA contract for Apollo Moon Project hardware, worth $676 million in fiscal 1966 alone. To cushion a potential slide in Government business, which could push total sales down as much as 15% this year, Atwood began making plans to expand "into the commercial and industrial sector." At one point, he made a strong but unsuccessful bid for Douglas Aircraft...
...spite of basic stability, some changes were going on during these four years, particularly in the sector of impulse control, interpersonal relations, and in opinions and attitudes...