Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon was a continent away at San Clemente, going about the business of the presidency. He reached a historic compromise with Congress on halting the Cambodia bombing by Aug. 15 (see page 14). He prepared to celebrate the nation's 197th Independence Day, a Fourth of July dimmed by deeply troubling questions (in the words of the Declaration) about the "just powers" of the present Government and by increasing doubts about the "consent of the governed." Though not present in the packed hearing room, Nixon was personally and directly confronted by the crouched figure of his youthful accuser, until lately...
...within the next few weeks. John Dunlop, the Cost of Living Council chief, said last week that he was considering lifting the freeze on "a phased basis." A number of firms and industries for which new rules can be quickly drafted could be relieved of the freeze well before Aug. 12, when the more flexible controls of Phase IV are scheduled to take effect. Other developments last week...
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...Impose, once again, a wage-price freeze. Rumors of a new 90-day-or possibly only 45-day-freeze were circulating widely. The attractions were obvious. The freeze that began on Aug. 15, 1971 as Phase I was highly popular and did break inflationary momentum. Moreover, ordering one now would steal a march on congressional Democrats, who were loudly threatening to write a freeze into law. But some of the President's closest advisers, notably Shultz and Stein, who cherish an almost mystical devotion to the free market, seemed strongly opposed; they swallowed one freeze, but might not stomach...
...solar panel, we might not be able to keep the lab alive long enough to get another crew up there." Indeed, as concern grew about possible further deterioration of the batteries, NASA advanced the launch date of the second Skylab crew from the originally scheduled Aug. 8 to July...