Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carter's other proposals are destined to be as ineffective as his budget cuts. The credit controls leave the bulk of consumer credit--borrowing for homes, cars and other durable items--untouched. Carter will require smaller companies to report price changes to the Council on Wage and Price Stability, while he is also going to raise the standards for pay increases. The latter move may be justified, but it is hardly a blow against inflation. In addition, the Council will hire more staffers. As Alfred Kahn concedes, "the wage and price program is always a kind of marginal thing...
Sunshine's 15-year bonds will be sold in $1,000 denominations next March, through underwriters Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. The company can redeem them in cash or bulk on. The amount of silver backing the bonds will be related to the spot-market price of the metal on the day of issue. But if, for example, each bond has 20 oz. of silver behind it, when it is redeemed the holder will receive $1,000 or the value of 20 oz. of silver, whichever is greater. The advantage to Sunshine, which recently escaped a bloody takeover attempt...
...moment he first stepped foot on the IAB pool deck and teammate Bobby Hackett mistook him for a member of the AAU Gators junior high contingent, the slightly-built newcomer realized lack of bulk might be a problem. After a few laps spent trying to keep up with the Harvard swim team, Roberts discovered he had bigger problems to contend with...
...five largest firms-Goodyear, Firestone, BF Goodrich, Uniroyal and General Tire & Rubber-which account for the bulk oi the industry's daily output of 700,000-plus tires, are having...
...1980s, presidential advisers will make a majority of high-level decisions because of the sheer bulk and variety of demands facing the chief executive. An incapacitated president would burden top officials with a larger number of policy decisions, and there is a real chance that this might happen during a Reagan administration. Electing Reagan means electing a collection of administrators...