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Carter's criticism of the GOP proposal stems from his projection that adoption of the original 10-per-cent, across-the-board individual tax cut plan (businesses would be allowed to deduct new investment on income taxes more quickly) would lead to an eventual three-year 30-per-cent total reduction--a measure supported by many Republicans in the house. The more drastic slash would also adjust rates for inflation annually. Carter himself has said he would review possible tax cut legislation after election heat has subsided, vowing that he would not be tempted by the potential vote-getting power...
...employer, our units are not fragmented," Powers says. Some envision pamphlet wars similar to the one waged by the administration in 1977. In what District 65 termed an attempt to systematically undermine its organizing campaign, the University gave clerical and technical workers a 3-per-cent across-the-board wage boost January...
Local 26, the union representing the dining hall workers, asked for a three-year contract with successive 10-, 9- and 8-per-cent increases retroactive to April 1. The union had originally sought a 20-per-cent across-the-board raise...
...council also refused to approve a more limited hiring freeze that would have applied only to departments with 50 or more employees. "That would be a gunshot way of making cuts. Across-the-board cuts indicate that those who propose them have not done their homework," Councilor Thomas W. Danehy said last night...
...immediate fallout of Demirel's program was an across-the-board rise in prices The cost of gasoline and other petroleum products shot up by 50% to 100%, bank interest rates by 22%. "It is true that the new measures will produce higher prices and therefore hardships," said one government economist, "but inflation was doing that anyway, so the situation has changed little for the genera public." In truth, Demirel had to do something-anything-to straighten out the economy. Inflation was approaching 100%, foreign exchange reserves have fallen below $500 million, and the country had virtually no credit...