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...Canada can continue the prevalent, "good-time-Charlie" attitude of letting the U.S. provide the bulk of the alliance's support and gamble that this is enough; or it can contribute more troops and foreign aid now to stave off disaster later. The first alternative is cheaper in the short-run; but if the second is necessary, the bargain is hardly worthwhile...
...steam locomotives in freight service and switchyards to realize a saving of $200 million a year. ¶ Allow management only to stipulate the number of required crew members. ¶ End rules requiring idle stand-by operating employees when self-propelled equipment is used and eliminate multiple crew changes on short-run trains...
Some of these schemes had no hope of adoption; others had little short-run relevance to the political ferment in the Middle East. ("When the principal personalities in a government are living in daily fear of murder and assassination," noted Secretary of State Dulles last week, "it is very hard to get their minds onto a program of economic development.") But, whether a summit meeting might do more than register familiar attitudes depended on how much either Khrushchev or Nasser really worried that the Middle East might get out of hand, and how willing they would be to treat specific...
Professor James Duesenberry recommended a short-run tax cut of $5 billion or more in conjunction with an increased government expenditure program...
Russian techniques for discrediting religion have succeeded to such an extent in the Middle East that according to Richard N. Frye, associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Islam cannot hope to survive, at least in "the short-run...