Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spokesmen for the unions and for the university yesterday declined to say whether the actions were the result of a pre-arranged agreement...
...agreement calls for the industrial nations to cut tariffs on thousands of imports by an average of 33% over the next eight years. Strauss also managed to win lower barriers on a large number of U.S. farm exports, including tur key parts, table grapes and canned fruit...
...participating governments must ratify the agreements. The package is expected to slide through Congress, probably in September, in part because the legislators committed themselves to voting only yes or no on the entire package, with no amendments. Strauss has put together a strong coalition of supporters and appeased the most powerful enemies of the agreement. Opposition to reduced tariffs by textile and garment makers, for example, has been muffled by a promise of tighter enforcement of existing import quotas, as well as Government grants to boost productivity...
...agreement comes at a time when the U.S. is poised for an export surge because the depreciated dollar makes American goods bargains in the world. After three years of almost no real growth, exports in 1978 jumped 18.5%, to $143.6 billion. More sales will be needed to help close the gap between imports and exports that last year totaled $28.5 billion. So now it is up to U.S. businessmen to take advantage of the lower barriers-and sell...
...warehouse workers an increase of more than 30% in wages and fringe benefits over three years. That is well above the Carter Administration's wage-guideline limit of 7% a year. But the Council on Wage and Price Stability, by tortuously twisting the guideline rules, pronounced the agreement acceptable. Chief Inflation Fighter Alfred Kahn admitted that the Administration's official position verges on fantasy. Said he: "You can say with honesty that there has been bending of the standards...