Word: adds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President offered one other provision to encourage the cooperation of business leaders: a reduction in unnecessary federal regulations that add to company costs. He cited his deregulation of the airline industry as an example. Yet he did not by any means promise total freedom from Government supervision. "Where regulations are essential, they must be efficient," he said. "Where they fight inflation, they should be encouraged. Where they are unnecessary, they should be removed...
...standards as is possible short of statutory controls. The program has a reasonable prospect of success." General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones agreed, explaining: "It was reassuring to hear the President place his main emphasis on measures aimed at the basic causes of inflation: excessive Government spending and regulations that add needlessly to the cost of doing business." While voicing some reservations, Carter Murphy, head of Southern Methodist University's economics department, viewed Carter's promise to veto more tax cuts as "a courageous political decision...
...rebate proposal for workers whose wage hikes fall behind the inflation rate was termed "innovative" by some economists. But others wonder whether it might not simply add to inflation if the rate soars beyond 7% and millions of workers then get a tax rebate. An 8% inflation rate could cost the government about $10 billion in rebates...
...tried, he would have had a tough tangle with the profligate Congress. Instead, the Administration sent out signals that it worried much less about stemming inflation than stimulating the economy. Who could mistake the message in Carter's call, early in his presidency, to add billions to spending and to rebate $50 to every American taxpayer? Carter attempted to meet the demands of every constituency of the old Democratic coalition, and practically everybody else as well. He gave in to-or actively encouraged -increases in the minimum wage, Social Security benefits, veterans' benefits, farm subsidies, civil service pensions...
Griffin is attacking his opponent as a free-spending Democrat who would add to "the high cost of Levin." The Senator reminds voters of how he helped block Lyndon Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas as U.S. Chief Justice in 1968 and Richard Nixon's nomination of Clement Haynsworth to the Supreme Court in 1969. Griffin also stresses, in current TV ads, the fight he made this year against the Panama Canal Treaties. Says he: "Next year I'll have even more seniority and my no will be even louder." Levin responds by scathingly calling Griffin "Senator No Show...