Word: dampers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dunlop became director of Richard Nixon's Cost of Living Council, which has been assigned with the task of keeping the damper on inflation without resorting to government wage and price controls. Inflation is currently at its highest rate since the Korean...
Poor Showing. Another promising sign is that Powers so far has put a damper on strike talk. But negotiations began only last week with two of the unions and bargaining is yet to start with the others. Powers observes that it is "most unusual" to wait until the deadline is so close. Before the last contract three years ago, talks had been going on for six months. From the management side have come hints that a strike would be preferable to a settlement like the one in 1970, which included large wage increases* and no automation concessions. Says Powers: "Some...
Harvard is hoping to bounce back from the disappointment of a surprise 14-13 loss to Princeton last weekend that put a damper on the team's first-of-the-season Ivy match. Crimson coach Edo Marion hopes that the relatively easy match tonight will enable the Crimson to recapture the form that the team showed at the beginning of the season...
People's Coalition for Peace & Justice, National Peace Action Coalition, Women Strike for Peace and other antiwar groups could put a damper on the celebration. Peace organizations in major cities have planned bus trips to the capital, where they hope to hold seminars and mount demonstrations against the war. Apart from the problems anti-Nixon demonstrators may bring, the Inauguration has already run into other minor flak. The President has been mildly criticized for selecting the Philadelphia Orchestra over the city's own National Symphony Orchestra, which has performed at past Inaugurations. Local radio and television stations have...
...former chief inspector of the Police Department. However, he does not have the strong personal appeal that Biaggi does and speaks quite poorly. Further the Knapp Commission which studied police corruption published a report that Garelik had accepted gratuities while on the force and this revelation puts a severe damper on his chances...