Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rising costs had forced the Department to cut down on its expenditures. After having made every reasonable cut in operating expenses of every sport, we found that we had still exceeded the amount of money which the Corporation would allot to us for the coming year...
Preliminary findings indicate that the Affection criterion, the agreement between potential roommates on how close the relationship between roommates should be, tends to confirm FIRO's compatibility predictions better than any other criterion used in the personality study. Among the other criteria considered are Inclusion, the amount of contact one desires with other people, and Control, different attitudes toward decision-making...
...their annual 2½% wage boost (averaging 7?an hour) and cost-of-living hike (averaging 2?), due on June 1, unless and until the union signs a contract. In the past, whenever the U.A.W. won a raise, the companies also raised nonunion and salaried employees the same amount. This week the Big Three automakers gave 2½% wage boosts and cost-of-living hikes to their 173,000 nonunion and salaried employees. It was a strong hint that the U.A.W. can expect little more...
...Wages do not drop or climb according to the supply of labor-or the amount of unemployment...
Economists have long known that 100% employment is impossible under any circumstances because there is always a certain amount of frictional unemployment caused by transitional or "between-job" idleness. But after World War II they did think that a level of "reasonably full employment" could be achieved along with stable prices, generally agreed that it would average out at 96% employment, or 4% unemployment. If unemployment rose above 4%, they felt that lowered purchasing power would cause prices to fall; if unemployment dropped below 4%, increasing demand would push prices higher. Now they know that this level no longer applies...