Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...salvation--gentle persuasion and cajolery--talents the President did not use to great effect in the last session of Congress. Before his plan has a chance of success, he will have to convince Congress to accept his "lean and austere" budget, Labor to hold down its wage demands, and Big Business to limit its price hikes. Along with miscellaneous other programs, these are the steps that Carter sees as necessary to curb rising prices...
...President is counting on big corporations to take up the employment slack caused by his programs, he may have a grim surprise awaiting him. Allowing them to keep more of their profits won't cause them to create many more jobs. The Department of Commerce reports that since 1970 net corporate profits have risen 270 per cent--and unemployment has soared as well...
...increases permitted by law and even considering other regulations to further raise prices--are appalling. When discussing deregulation of competitive industries in his State of the Union address, he shrewdly avoided mentioning his efforts to raise prices in one of the most concentrated, oligopolistic, profitable industries in the economy--big oil. Not only do the top eight petroleum refining companies possess 14.5 per cent of the the market, they also control the other stages of the production process. And as anyone who has taken Ec 10 knows, the oil industry does not fit the classical model of perfect competition...
Even the ever-optimistic McLaughlin has expressed doubt about how well Harvard can do without a dominant big man. Dave Coatsworth has done an admirable job in the middle, but he's a freshman and not a very tall one at that. He can't control the tempo...
...Crimson should be seeded in the middle of the pack in the March 23 and 24 elimination playoff for Ivy bragging rights. Having already beaten top-rated Dartmouth, Harvard could come away with a big surprise in its first year of life. Women's Varsity Hockey [1-5-1] at Providence 0-17L at Yale 1-2L at Brown (OT)4-4T Providence 3-13L Boston State 2-8L at Dartmouth 5-3W Boston State...