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Business groups contend that the increased labor costs from any hike jeopardize hundreds of thousands of jobs. Union leaders counter that such claims are exaggerated. Economists are of no help in resolving the dispute. Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, says a $4.65 base rate would eliminate 600,000 jobs, cost consumers $13 billion more a year and add $2 billion to the deficit. The Congressional Budget Office has projected that 500,000 jobs would be lost. But Economist F. Gerard Adams of the University of Pennsylvania argues that a higher minimum wage would cost no more...
...seat on the legislature for his protege to succeed him in 1963, or when Fran Meaney left another candidate's campaign to help Dukakis. The first break in this code came in 1969 after Dukakis had agreed to run for attorney general against Elliot Richardson while Beryl Cohen, an ally from his high school days, would run for Lieutenant Governor. When Nixon took Richardson to Washington, the legislature filled the attorney general's post with a Democrat, and Dukakis had no clear shot at the office. So he switched, and took aim at Cohen's slot, the lieutenant governorship. Dukakis...
...Senator Alben Barkley, then 71, in 1948. He lives the life of a comfortable millionaire in Washington's exclusive Kalorama section. He did not give up his Mercedes even when he was shepherding sensitive trade legislation through - Congress (although he now drives a Lincoln). His wife of 45 years, Beryl Ann, better known as B.A., is a former model for Vogue and Mademoiselle who gave up her career to marry Bentsen in 1943. Of the rolling-bandage school of Senate wives, B.A. last year served as first vice chairman of the group's organization, supervising its lunch for Nancy Reagan...
...level is approaching the threshold at which it begins to spur wage and price increases. Says he: "I like an unemployment rate of 5.3%, but if it goes below 5%, then I would be concerned." Yet other economists think the work force can readily accommodate the scattered shortages. Says Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "We have a flexible labor market. Individuals do move from areas of temporary surplus into areas of so-called shortage...
...spite of the bill's merits, President Reagan has vowed not to sign it. Sure there are some dubious provisions, such as the many pet projects of Congressmen more interested in their constituents than in an effective trade policy. Rep Beryl Anthony (D.-Ark.) inserted a provision lowering tariffs on watch parts, a move that would benefit the Timex plant in his district. Rep. Don Bonker (D.-Wash.) wants to restrict plywood imports that hurt his state's timber industry...