Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration's Kahn-do posture got a boost last week when the House Ways and Means Committee opened hearings on the weakest link in the anti-inflation program: real wage insurance. The idea had been initially dismissed by most economists and politicians as unpassable and unworkable, but lately it has shown some staying power. Committee...
Both Government experts and industry officials agree that the surest way to resolve the problem is to lift price controls. But that is politically difficult because it would boost living costs and thus run counter to the Administration's anti-inflation drive. Last week the DOE estimated that gasoline prices would rise by about 9? a gal. under present price controls by the end of 1980, and by about 13? a gal. if the restraints were lifted. Though the department contends that decontrol would probably not greatly increase the premium on unleaded, now 4.4%, it agrees that under...
...officials fear that the boost may discourage potential applicants such as middle income students who are ignorant of Harvard's financial aid possibilities...
...Republican William Cohen of Maine, told Carter that they are alarmed by a new U.S. intelligence appraisal revealing that North Korea is significantly more powerful than previously reported. The assessment places the size of Pyongyang's army at up to 600,000 men and 2,600 tanks, a boost of 25% over the last U.S. estimate. Against this, Seoul fields an army of 560,000 troops and 880 tanks. The South is at a 2-to-l disadvantage in tactical aircraft and trails 4 to 1 in warships...
Volvo Boss Pehr Gyllenhammar is justifiably proud of his company's solidly engineered cars, but his business deals seem not to be put together so well. The energetic and outspoken Gyllenhammar has been searching for ways to boost sales, but his efforts have resulted so far in little more than wheel spinning. Plans to build an assembly plant in the U.S. and to merge with archcompetitor Saab-Scania have both had to be given up for one reason or another. Last week Gyllenhammar got his biggest setback yet; opposition by Volvo shareholders forced him to scrap a plan...