Word: beene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FROM the start of its fight against inflation, the Nixon Administration pledged not to copy Lyndon Johnson's controversial "jawbone" tactics. There has been considerable jawboning, but it is different from Johnson's. Johnson's jawboning involved White House pressure on specific industries against specific price increases...
All this turmoil indicates that the Administration is beginning to face an economic credibility problem, though not of the sort that it has been talking about. Nixon men have said that they are having trouble convincing business, labor and consumers that the Government will stick to its prescribed anti-inflation...
This heresy has been argued most forcefully by Economists Robinson G. Hollister and John L. Palmer in a study for the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Research on Poverty. They contend that the labor shortages produced by an inflationary boom enable many of the poor to land jobs...
Nixon requested tough new powers to retaliate against countries that erect "unfair" barriers to American exports, or unfairly subsidize their own foreign commerce. Nixon also asked Congress for changes in current law to make it easier for industries, companies or groups of workers that have been hurt by imports to...
Last week Halaby's activist style propelled him into the boss's seat at Pan American World Airways, of which he has been president for the past 18 months. Chairman Harold Gray, 63, stepped down after only a year and a half as chief executive of the financially...