Word: boostings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fairly flat" sum will probably be adopted for all income groups, though the precise figure has not yet been determined. Obviously, if everybody gets a $100 or $200 rebate, people with lower incomes stand to benefit the most proportionately. Social Security recipients are expected to receive a one-shot boost in their benefits similar to the $50 they gained from the 1975 tax cut package...
...could stay in business. Actually, the company has reduced its debt and break-even point so greatly that no one expects it to go under. Nonetheless, A.M.C., pleading poverty, last week asked the United Auto Workers to extend its contract until Sept. 16, rather than shooting for a wage boost...
...heating. After graduating from high school in Detroit, he went to work at Chrysler's De Soto plant and, faithful to his father's socialist leanings, quickly drew notice as a union agitator. By age 26, he was president of his local, where he tried to boost membership by serving beer; at 30, he was an international representative; by 34, he had caught the eye of Reuther, who took him on as an administrative assistant...
Short-Term Concern. A few liberal economists are worried that there may be slightly too much good news. More smidgens of improvement between now and Inauguration Day may cause Jimmy Carter to trim the program of tax cuts and Government spending increases, possibly resulting in a smaller boost for the economy than they think it needs. Carter told reporters last week that the economy looks better to him than it did a month ago, but left his plans vague...
...high-volume sales of Citizens Band radios received another boost on New Year's Day, when a Federal Communications Commission ruling that delighted CB bugs went into effect. The FCC authorized the use of 17 more channels to supplement the 23 already crowded by 7.8 million licensed CBers. Although retailing biggies like Sears, Roebuck will gain much from demand for the new, higher-capacity radios, the firm that stands to benefit most is a fast-growing Texas-based chain of consumer electronics stores called Radio Shack...