Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hardly. The rich and the right just want their own cut of the take. In neighboring Chile, for example, all parties voted for companero President Allende's expropriation of the American copper interests-the right, because it hopes to control the mines itself; the left, because it wants the Chilean people to guide production and distribution...
...anti-Allende supporters had surged through Santiago's streets. Demands had been made for Allende's impeachment; others called for civil war. Doctors, dentists and nurses went on strike, protesting Chile's uncontrollable inflation, which has soared 235% in the past year. They joined thousands of copper workers, who have shut down Chile's largest copper mines and paralyzed the nation's economy, which gets 80% of its foreign exchange from copper...
...profits sweep," because they are suspected of having exceeded Phase Ill's price rules and may now face rollbacks. Two of the industries are chemicals and electrical machinery. Businessmen apparently also have decided that the freeze was for real. U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Uniroyal, B.F. Goodrich and Kennecott Copper canceled or postponed increases that had been put into effect or scheduled...
...polled in the association's latest monthly survey disclosed that their industries were either operating "beyond capacity" or between 90% and 100% of their potential. A total of 95% of the buyers believed that prices would continue to rise in 1973, especially for such increasingly scarce items as copper, steel, zinc, transformers, electrical components, machine parts, wire, plastics and leather. Lags in production schedules, the survey notes, are forcing purchasing agents to order farther and farther in advance. For example, 21% of the buyers polled were ordering more than 180 days ahead in April, v. 14% in March...
...seems certain about the best way to treat tennis elbow. Some doctors recommend complete rest for the arm. Some players, influenced by folklore, wear copper bracelets and report beneficial effects-despite the scoffing of medical scientists. A few doctors and many tennis pros suggest a more practical remedy: wearing a tight elastic band below the elbow, on the theory that compression of the arm decreases the tension on the forearm muscles...