Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration has not given up the anti-inflation game entirely. John Dunlop, director of the C.O.L.C., is known as a muscular arm-twister who has been able to quash price increases with subtle combinations of browbeating and incentives. Dunlop, for instance, decontrolled such industries as autos, rubber and fertilizer in exchange for promises that executives would voluntarily hold down their prices and, in some cases, step up their output. Recently he said that he might urge the Administration, perhaps through the Federal Energy Office, to allocate scarce building materials to parts of the country where construction unions agree to only...
...last time the two teams clashed, January 12 in the Palestra, Penn eked out a 55-53 win on John Beecroft's last-second shot. But last Saturday's miracle in Marvel Gym, Brown's one-point win over the Quakers, gives Crimson title hopes a shot in the arm...
Schlesinger says that the Pentagon "cannot guarantee the success of a volunteer Army" but will make every effort to make it work. As an inducement to volunteers, Congress has approved bonuses?$2,500 for a high school graduate enlisting for four years in a combat arm, $15,000 to a doctor who signs up?and has dramatically raised military pay. It now costs taxpayers $12,448 a year to maintain each person in uniform, compared with $3,443 in 1950. In all, the volunteer force has added $3.1 billion a year to the Pentagon budget. Manpower now accounts...
...atmosphere created by Watergate, the rule was laid down to keep congressional reporters from being (or seeming to be) too cozy with business or Government. Says Hearst Correspondent Pat Sloyan, a retiring board member: "It's the appearance of the thing. We're talking about a propaganda arm of the U.S. Government...
...RIGHT PLACE, WRONG TIME, Doctor John. Nine in June. "I done hit the right vein, but it must have been the wrong arm." Great rhythm from this laid-back New Orleans musician. Album with same title also is a winner...