Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past month, the fever has killed considerably more than 1,000 North Vietnamese, nearly 90% of them between the ages of two and 15. From expressions of concern by the government radio and press, Hanoi watchers infer that the disease has already cut into the North's industrial productivity...
...final quarter of this year than during the same period a year ago, and Chrysler is about to lay off some of its 40,000 white-collar workers to reduce costs. A. W. ("Tom") Clausen, vice chairman of the Bank of America, predicted last week that banks will cut their prime rate from the present record 81% early next year, or perhaps even sooner. Walter Heller, the former White House chief economist, maintains that "inflation has probably now passed its peak of intensity...
Behind all the maneuvering is the scheduled airlines' growing fear of the increasingly popular cut-rate charter lines, which offer high-season round-trip Atlantic fares for as little as $150. The scheduled carriers are particularly disturbed by abuses of the "affinity rule," which decrees that only members of bona fide organizations can take charter flights. Recently, a group calling itself the "International Order of Old Bastards" arranged a charter trip from the U.S. to Mallorca. Unamused, Pan Am executives complained to the CAB; meanwhile the flight was canceled...
...part, the CAB was so deeply disappointed that it decided to allow bulkfare merchandising only through Dec. 31. After the CAB took that action, Alitalia acted unilaterally to cut fares...
...guard against theft. Construction has slowed so drastically that of 6,000 new apartments planned for this year, fewer than 100 have been completed. Because of a lack of coal, the government has reduced supplies available to schools and homes-a harsh step as cold weather approaches-and has cut electricity to "nonvital" industries...