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...stem imports, the government ordered a reduction in the amount of money available for purchases abroad, also stipulated that British importers stop paying in advance for foreign goods. Estimated saving: $126 million a year. To spur British sales abroad, Callaghan said that interest charges for short-term export credits will be trimmed from 7% to 6%; the government will also delay planned construction projects for schools, hospitals, housing and roads-thus bravely inviting a rise in unemployment in hopes of overcoming labor shortages in key export industries, such as shipbuilding. To dampen domestic demand and bring down export prices...
Brainstorm begins with a small, safe idea, carefully contrived to spur concern for the right people. Driving home from work one night, a sober young research analyst (Jeff Hunter) comes upon a locked limousine stalled on the railroad tracks, with an irresistible blonde (Anne Francis) asleep inside. Of course, he saves her from an approaching train. Of course, she upbraids him for spoiling her attempted suicide, and of course she turns out to be the wife of his employer (Dana Andrews), the ruthless tycoon who heads Benson Industries...
...sense, American Express got mixed up with Tino in an effort to spur sales of its famous travelers' checks. Back in 1944, the company figure J that it could induce bankers to push the checks by performing a service for them. A subsidiary, American Express Warehousing, would store, inspect and vouch for the oil that commodities dealers commonly used as collateral for their bank loans. It was a rewarding business-De Angelis paid American Express Warehousing up to $20,000 a week-but terribly risky. If anything went wrong, Amexco's subsidiary was responsible for making good...
...rolled through Brussels a faculty member barraged the students with questions. "Who recently introduced the lower bank rate in France?" A student's correct answer: "Valéry Giscard d'Estaing." "Why?" "To spur investment." At the International School of Brussels, U.S. executives of Ford, I.T.T., Monsanto and Upjohn got a grilling from the students: "Why are Germany's gold reserves going down when its economy is booming?" "What marketing research have you done in Europe on oral contraceptives?" In Paris, the Americans met Gaullist students to discuss the mysteries of the world's teen-agers...
...President has taken to using television the way other men use the telephone. In the past two weeks he has appeared six times-usually on the spur of the moment, to such an extent that harried network executives pleaded for warnings further in advance. A typical performance came at 9:58 p.m. on Sunday, May 2. Johnson gave the networks less than three hours' notice. No one knew what his subject was going to be. Only CBS carried the appearance live. Yet it proved to be one of Johnson's meatiest statements about the Dominican Republic...