Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price of oil by the amount of the eventual dollar devaluation, which could result in much higher tags on gasoline and fuel oil. The airlines, international hotel companies and travel agents stand to be hurt by the higher costs of traveling abroad, which vacationers are already beginning to bear (see page 13). International air fares will not immediately go up as a consequence of dollar devaluation. The 108-member International Air Transport Association must unanimously approve any changes in the basic fare structure, and the members will not be able to agree on any increases for at least several months...
...Robert Nathan: "If the Administration's leaders are tough enough, we'll get a good incomes policy and a wage-price board. But I don't know if they've got guts enough to do that, and do it so that labor doesn't bear the brunt." Says David Grove: "Nobody believes that the 90-day freeze won't be extended in some way, probably by setting up a policing review board. That's the minimum Government apparatus that is needed." In dissent, Beryl Sprinkel says: "A wage-price review board...
...thrown into bogs for the amusement of the invaders. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Poet Edmund Spenser witnessed the horrors and described the wretched survivors: "Out of every corner of the woods and glens, they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs would not bear them. They looked like anatomies of death; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
...surprise, temporary wage-price freeze. Some of his aides say that for all his doubts he would just as soon have a wage-price board, simply to end all the debate. And if an incomes board is mandated by Congress but fails to halt inflation, Nixon will not bear all the blame...
...flourish, after a fashion and for a while. Perhaps it is just as well that the authors have chosen not to brood on the history of communal societies in the U.S. Few have lasted long; those that endured often lost much of the founding spirit, and came to bear an uncomfortable resemblance to the society they had abandoned...