Word: ackerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...calculate that the average military income, when adjusted for inflation, is about 11% below what it was in 1972. For many first-term enlistees who make only their $448.80 a month basic pay, hourly earnings are substantially less than the $3.10 federal minimum wage. Says Major General William P. Acker, Commander of the Air Force Military Training Center at Lackland in Texas: "A good, sharp youngster can do better working at McDonald...
...program "was very positive and broad," said C. Edward Acker, chairman of Air Florida, a small airline. "I wasn't expecting so much." Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, declared: "I think the President has made a complete reversal of his economic policy, for the better. He has gone from three years of greatly excessive budget deficits and excessive money supply expansion to a conservative regime of budget balancing and limited credit growth." Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon commented with ironic approval: "It seems that the President has learned more about inflation...