Word: anties
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Renewed his plea to labor and industry to bring wage and price increases below the average of the past two years. Carter specifically called on high executives to freeze their own salaries and bonuses as a kind of anti-inflationary example to the troops. He added that the Council on Wage and Price Stability will begin a series of meetings with executives in the steel, paper, aluminum, railroad and other industries to formulate goals for wage-price boosts...
Even the most determined anti-inflation program will yield results only slowly, and at first these results may be disappointingly small. That is all the more reason for starting the attack now. Inflation has indeed become part of the tissue of the American economy-and to let diseased tissue spread is a certain way to ensure disaster...
...major loser in the tense maneuvering leading to the President's new anti-inflation policy was his Treasury Secretary, W. Michael Blumenthal. TIME's Washington bureau chief Robert Ajemian writes...
Nonetheless, Mondale and Carter's "Magnolia Mafia," as his staff is being called by critics, continued to believe Blumenthal was incapable of winning over a skeptical business community to Administration policy. Three weeks ago they recommended that Blumenthal be replaced by Strauss as the head of the anti-inflation drive. This time Carter took the advice, regardless of the consequences. When one of his staff warned him that Blumenthal might not accept the decision, Carter replied: "I'm set for that." White House staffers were, in fact, hoping that Blumenthal would resign. "Let him," remarked one high aide...
Members of the Harvard Anti-Nuclear Alliance (HANA) rallied in Harvard Square Saturday afternoon, carrying placards denouncing development of nuclear power plants such as Boston Edison's Pilgrim...