Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying to finish the difficult budget for fiscal 1980 (and suffering from a flare-up of hemorrhoids that forced him to cancel all appointments on Thursday). Administration economists immediately tried to calculate what the damage from the OPEC price hike would be for 1979. They estimated that the cost of petroleum products, ranging from heating oil to gasoline, would rise 3? to 5? a gallon. The inflation rate, now projected at 7.5% for next year, would rise by another .3%. The rate of economic growth, they estimated, would be trimmed by .15% to 2.5%, a performance sluggish enough to lead...
...companies-Firestone, BF Goodrich, Goodyear and Uniroyal-expire in April. The militant union has conducted eight major strikes since 1960; the last, in 1976, dragged on for 141 days. Another next year is likely. Still, the union's demands focus on job security rather than wages, and the cost of the settlement could be partly offset by changes in work rules...
...June, contracts between 150,000 members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and apparel manufacturers will expire. New demands will be modest and wage increases will be tied to productivity gains. The union is well aware that its industry is threatened by low-cost imports, particularly from the Third World...
...American college boy's escape from a Turkish jail. Without any visible means of box-office support, i.e., genuine stars, or even a few recognizable players, Express has already made $52 million. At the same time, the era of the disaster movie appears to be over. It cost $14 million to shoot The Swarm-the price of honey being what it is these days-but audiences decided that bees, even when they are threatening humanity, were, well, just bees, and the producers were the only ones to get stung...
...things because they were not so sure of what was going to happen to their dollars." Added Roger Horchow, owner of the zooming eight-year-old The Horchow Collection mail-order firm: "People are looking for good value, not whimsical merchandise. People are buying what they know will cost more later...