Word: chairmen
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There was no rush of volunteers after Jimmy Carter suggested that high executives waive their pay raises for a year in the crusade against inflation. Corporate chiefs can argue that they too have been squeezed. According to Arthur Young & Co., accountants, salaries of chairmen, presidents and chief financial officers rose an average of 46.9% from 1970 through 1976, a jot higher than the consumer price index climb of 46.6%. In fact, these executives did not keep up with inflation because they were pushed into higher tax brackets, and much of their raises was taxed away. Last year they did somewhat...
...Currier House Committee chairmen have drafted a similar supportive letter, which we're distributing to the House," Daniel M. Berman '79, member of the Currier House Committee, said yesterday...
After Williams had read a few letters, the chairmen of the committee interrupted by saying that he need not proceed--they had gotten the point. The audience disagreed. A woman shouted, "You guys work for us--let him read more." And the debate continued with the legislators acting more like zoc keepers subduing an unruly band of hyenas than a panel of elected representatives attentive of their constituents...
...next day Bergland warned Agricultural Committee Chairmen Thomas Foley in the House and Herman Talmadge in the Senate that the President would veto the farm bill if a joint conference committee did not drop the amendment. Three days before Bergland passed along the veto threat, the leading sugar-user spokesman, Coca-Cola's chief purchaser, John Mount, remarked to a group of colleagues while they were having drinks at the bar of Washington's Sheraton-Carlton Hotel: "If we cannot prevail in conference, we will just have to call in a few chits and have the President veto...
Michael A. Calabrese '79, chairman of the convention and a Crimson editor, said that in light of the endorsement by the student caucus of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), the convention would seek similar support from the chairmen of the various House committees in an effort to generate support for the convention's aims...