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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Inflation has heightened the risks of investment and led to extreme uncertainty, so that business decision makers have no confidence that an investment today of $1-or $1 billion-will pay off in the future. In a highly inflationary economy, managers have no sound means of estimating the real cost of a long-term project, no way of knowing whether profits will cover that cost. So they delay or abandon investment projects that seem marginal or chancy. Instead, they put the company money into a smaller number of investments that seem to be sure winners-or into buying out existing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: America's Capital Opportunity | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...increase of 75? an hour in the first year and 50? in each of the next two years. Members now earn about $9.40 an hour, and long-distance drivers can make $30,000 a year. The drivers are also asking for bigger employer contributions to benefit plans and larger cost-of-living boosts. In all, the demands would come to a three-year increase of 35% to 38%, well above the guidelines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Guidelines Face a Rough Ride | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...offer, on the other hand, is much closer to the guidelines. The companies are offering a 65? hourly wage increase in the first year, or 6.5%, followed by a raise of 10? an hour in each of the next two years. But various improvements in benefits and cost-of-living escalators would bring the whole package to roughly 23% over three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Guidelines Face a Rough Ride | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency would sharply tighten the already strict standards on pollution emissions and make burning coal more difficult than ever. The amendments already require, among other things, that new coal-fired plants install highly complex "scrubbers" to remove sulfur pollution from exhaust smoke. The scrubbers cost $80 million or more for an average-size, 800-megawatt generating plant. What really upsets coalmen is that the regulations would force utilities to use scrubbers to remove up to 85% of sulfur pollutants even from coal that has virtually no sulfur content at all, an incredible waste of money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Dangers of Counting on Coal | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...little more than store patients, those who responded to the new antipsychotic medication could be released to their families and treated as outpatients. Under the Community Mental Health Center Act of 1963, 647 local centers have been set up to treat such "deinstitutionalized" patients, and also to bring low-cost care to the rest of the public, particularly the poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psychiatry on the Couch | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

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