Word: burdens
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...auto industry and increase unemployment. General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy calls the plan "one of the most simplistic, irresponsible and shortsighted ideas ever conceived." Said Douglas Fraser, a shoo-in as the next president of the United Auto Workers: "Auto workers should not accept a disproportionate share of the burden...
Here and there, however, there are signs that the full burden of national power is beginning to have impact. Attorney General Griffin Bell is plainly appalled these days at the monastic life he must lead to do all the work before him. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance is obviously a more cautious and thoughtful man after his encounter with the Soviets in Moscow. The White House men like Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell still stand aloof from Washington, suspicious of its protocols, staggered by its costs, confusion and hypocrisy. Now and then Carter himself seems on the verge of discouragement...
Energy continues to decline, and machines must be replaced by human muscle and beasts of burden. People are working longer hours and there is less leisure; but then, with electric lighting restricted, television for only three hours a night, movies three evenings a week, new books few and printed in small editions, what is there to do with leisure? Work, sleep and eating are the great trinity of 1997, and only the first two are guaranteed...
That was the somewhat despairing word last week from David Minton, the executive director of a blue-ribbon commission that Congress set up last year to determine what, if anything, could be done to increase the efficiency of the U.S. Postal Service and reduce the burden it places on taxpayers. The commission will transmit its findings to Congress this week. Key recommendation...
...Businessmen also suspect that they will be asked to bear the chief burden of Carter's anti-inflation policies, due out this week (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS), and his energy conservation program, which is expected to be announced next week. These fears are partly responsible for tumbling stock prices and the sluggishness of capital investment. The businessmen want Carter to press Congress harder for an increase in the investment-tax credit to rev up the economy...