Word: abhoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last television debate with Ford that he would call corporate and labor leaders together to work out voluntary guidelines for pay and price boosts. But businessmen have not forgotten that early in the campaign Carter spoke of requesting stand-by authority to impose wage-price controls, which executives abhor. Says Raymond Herzog, president of 3M: "The mere mention of federal intervention causes companies to raise their prices in anticipation. Inflation would spiral. Carter should go on the record to stop these rumors...
Carter handled the incident, which could have adversely affected his performance in black precincts on Tuesday, with aplomb. Carter said he would not quit the church but rather would stay and "try to change an attitude that I abhor...
...accounting profession." Andersen Chairman Harvey E. Kapnick Jr. protests that his company is merely trying to preserve the profession's right to set its own rules, free from Government interference. Some of his colleagues fear that Andersen is inviting the very Government dictation it professes to abhor. If the SEC cannot expect compliance with the F.A.S.B.'S rules, they think, the Government agency might well promulgate nitpicking standards of its own. The ordinary stockholder, trying to make sense out of his company's financial statement, can only hope that somebody, somehow brings about greater uniformity in keeping...
...proved that this is not a building year," an animated Barnaby said after the match. "I abhor that phrase. We have a lot of work to do but we welcome the challenge. it's no fun to just mop up. The satisfying thing is to win the tough matches...
...conditions are drastically changing and, hopefully, some of the emptiness Slesinger's characters endure will soon no longer exist. For now, however, it does--in every woman's life. Slesinger's writing brings cries of recognition and nods of understanding from all women--those involved in, and those who abhor the revolution...