Word: deemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wage side, companies' biggest problem has been explaining to the silent minority of salaried employees the rules on merit raises. Each employee can get as much or as little as his bosses deem appropriate, but the company can increase its total salary and benefit costs by no more than 5.5%. Employees of Rollins, Inc., a diversified Atlanta company, got the deliciously wrong idea that everybody's pay would automatically jump 5.5%; executives are disabusing them of that notion. Raises that come as a result of promotions do not count against the 5.5% standardre severe enough to make many businessmen gloomy...
WHEN he announced the wage-price freeze, President Nixon based his action on the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970. The law gives stand-by powers to the President to "issue such orders as he may deem appropriate to stabilize prices, rents, wages and salaries." The irony is that Nixon vigorously opposed the bill when it was debated in Congress and said he would...
...Chinese will be able to use U.S. medical instruments and American-made road rollers and pavers, drive U.S. passenger cars and motor scooters, or cruise up the Yangtze in boats powered by American outboard motors. Chinese housewives will be able, if their government does not deem it too decadent, to whip up sweet cakes with U.S.-made mixers and enjoy the marvels of American household appliances. Chinese office buildings and department stores will be able to install American elevators, escalators, furnaces and air-conditioning equipment. In a bid for U.S. grain sales to China, Nixon annulled the old "50% clause...
...wrote Frankfurter, "is not likely to be insensible to the freedom guaranteed by our Constitution. But as a member of this court, I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard...
...faculty. There are also informal devices for skirting formal action by the Corporation and achieving the practical effect of a student vote. For instance, the Law School's Administrative Board permits decisions to hinge on a vote of the entire Board, students included, in cases which its faculty members deem appropriate. And the Divinity School is governed, without the objection of the Corporation, by what the Governance Committee terms "a kind of Athenian democracy of faculty and students on a one-man-one-vote basis...