Word: anties
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economics, send an economics message to Congress, detail his tax-cut program and put the finishing touches on the federal budget for fiscal 1979. Both liberal and conservative economists agree that the main weakness in the President's program so far is his failure to develop an effective anti-inflation policy. As if to underscore the point, the Government reported that wholesale prices of finished goods climbed .7% in December, equal to an annual rate of 8.7%. That was nearly double the November increase. Food prices alone leaped...
Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal announced that the Administration will unveil a new anti-inflation plan this week. It will apparently consist of a set of "principles" that the Administration will urge labor and business to follow in boosting wages and prices, with no numbers indicating how much is too much. Says one top Government economist: "I don't know how the hell it is going to work...
...heart ailment; in Los Angeles. Brash yet amiable, Braden was a spokesman for democratic liberties in the Western Hemisphere, ever on the crusade against dictatorship. In 1940, as Ambassador to Colombia, he managed the firing of pro-Nazi pilots who endangered the Panama Canal. As fervently anti-Communist as he was anti-Nazi, Braden later took a firm cold war stance, calling for a U.S. invasion of Cuba...
...Russian immigrants to San Francisco, she used to speak her mother's tongue "with the sophistication of a ten-year-old," she says. "But now I'm fluent. I can even handle a lot of technical talk." Which turns out to be quite useful in plotting an anti-meteor strategy with fellow Astrophysicist Sean Connery...
...FOUNDERS of 9to5 were originally wary of traditional union organizing, since unions historically had neglected women office workers and seemed to have a more cumbersome, less effective method of organizing than 9to5. But group organizers say their anti-union feeling has changed, since it has become apparent that only unions have the power to negotiate about conditions in the workplace. So in 1975, 9to5 helped set up Local 925 of the International Service Employees Union to represent Boston office workers. While the two organizations are careful to remain autonomous, each clearly benefits from the work of the other...