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Industrial production and manufacturers' new orders have slipped during the year. The strong upward movement of business investment, which has pushed up the economy since the end of 1954, appears to be slowing; expenditures for new plants and equipment this year are rising at a slower rate. Home construction is dillydallying along at lower levels, and economists foresee no strong upturn in the near future. While the dollar growth in gross national product sets new peaks each quarter, inflation now accounts for more than half of each advance. Much of the increase in personal income, which continues...
...less argumentative way, Erhard points to the fact that West Germany still runs a deficit ($600 million last year) in its trade with the U.S., and blandly suggests that he might be prepared to revalue the Deutsche Mark if the U.S. would take "moral leadership" by revaluing the dollar upward first-a highly unlikely happening...
...dome where there was no hold and no exit. Unable to move or risk driving a piton into the rock, Bonatti hung motionless for an hour, finally gambled on lunging to his right, amazingly lighted on a toehold and handhold. In twelve hours the climbers inched upward only 1,000 ft., camped at dark on a precarious ledge. Throats parched, they longed for the water they had left behind in order to travel light (total equipment: 18 lbs.), listened to a stream rippling inside the rock out of sight...
...round at a screaming maid, another at a colonel of the guards (neither was hit). As his former comrades in arms rushed up from all sides, Vásquez Sánchez put the rifle muzzle to his throat and fired the last bullet of his five-round clip upward through his own skull...
...earth, where the air has one-hundredth the density of sea-level air. A radio signal from the ground will set an igniting system in motion. The four Stage One Recruits will roar into life, concentrating their 160,000 lbs. of thrust on the small rocket and snapping it upward with 70 g. of acceleration. It will shoot through the filmy balloon as if it were not there. The first stage fuel will be burned in 1.5 sec., giving Far Side a speed of 3,500 m.p.h. Stage Two, igniting a few seconds after the separation of Stage One, will...