Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was one hopeful job development: members of the United Mine Workers voted to accept a contract that will raise wages and benefits 54% over the next three years. The end of their 24-day strike will avert many layoffs in coal-using industries. But enough workers are being furloughed anyway to keep unemployment climbing. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, now predicts that the unemployment rate will peak at "something over 7%" next summer...
Pentagon planners grudgingly accept the fact that each January congressional liberals routinely lop $3.5 billion or so off their requested budget, and the liberals regularly grumble that the military goes on buying weapons as rapidly as it had planned anyway. This year, however, the Defense Department has run up against a far more merciless budget slicer that is really forcing cutbacks in weapons procurement: the savage bite of inflation...
Huge Costs. The Pentagon, of course, may have brought some of the problem on itself by its past willingness to accept price increases that contractors claimed were forced by huge cost overruns and bail out firms that could not deliver weapons at the previously established price. J. Ronald Fox, former Assistant Secretary of the Army, points out that "there are always pressures for increasing costs in an industry where there is little price competition...
...would quarantine small pox carriers during a plague. But Friedman argues that this is an invalid parallel. Someone who catches a contagious disease is an unwilling victim. Someone who takes up dope after associating with users has done so because has has seen their lifestyle and chosen to accept it. He may have done so because he is psychologically weak or misinformed, but that same possibility exists, as Friedman points out, for subscribing to National Review. Is William F. Buckley a contagious disease...
...early '60s to a forthright attack on the system that denied them their freedom. But in another sense the fact that Saturday's march won't be the first of its kind is encouraging, for experience shows that it can work. When Southern school systems were forced to accept racial integration, schoolchildren--especially black school children--were subjected to extreme pressure aimed at reversing court and Justice Department orders, just as black schoolchildren in South Boston have been taunted and stoned in an effort to force a reversal of Judge W. Arthur Garrity's busing order...