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...have taken a number of economic measures [increased taxes on higher incomes, tightened credit policy]. This is not a long-term program. Its aim is to bring inflation under control. I believe that by the end of this year, inflation will not surpass 12% or 13%. Last year and at the beginning of this, Greece had the highest inflation rate in Europe, around...
...second "conservation" option would aim at reducing the growth of energy use by such methods as enforcing national highway speed limits and standards for auto gas mileage; establishing national lighting standards and offering incentives such as lower fares and parking surcharges to get people to ride mass transit. Despite President Ford's stress on voluntary energy saving, the FEA experts argue that in order to be effective, many conservation measures would have to be mandatory...
Late last week seven of the eight House masters who kept accounts with the store said they would stop doing business there, at least temporarily. The support committee, Harrison said, will aim next at the freshman proctors' liquor allowances at the Harvard...
...these changes aim to keep alive next year the capital-goods investment boom that is now the economy's principal prop. Many economists are not sure that the changes would make much difference. Fed Chairman Burns, for example, told a joint economic subcommittee last week that because the corporate income tax rate would be increased by the surcharge at the same,. time, "the effects tof the investment incentives] are not easy to judge...
...aim of the NLG, as quoted in its constitution is "to bring together all those... who recongnize the importance of safeguarding and extending the rights of workers, women, farmers, and minority groups upon whom the welfare of the nation depends...