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...most other countries, wages have continued rising so rapidly that even the moderate improvement in business that occurred sent prices up sharply too. Many European governments responded with austerity measures aimed at holding down demand. Business quickly slowed, while joblessness remained high-all without making much of a dent in the rate of price increases...
...drum is undamaged except for a small dent and some scratches, he added...
...like the old CCC to put jobless youths to work on urban clean-up and build-up projects, and the like. He argues that the programs would ultimately pay for themselves by getting people off the dole and turning them into productive taxpayers. Remembering that such schemes did not dent unemployment much during the 1960s, some of his advisers are skeptical. Still, others think they can avoid the pitfalls by focusing their efforts on people who have at least basic literacy and the competence to hold...
...should," said one delegate. Reagan supporters had prepared a three-page list of hot queries, but Ford was ready. One reason: a sympathetic delegate had slipped the White House an advance look at most of the questions. After Ford's successful trip, his chief Southern strategist, Harry Dent, said any attempt to get the delegation to buy the Schweiker candidacy would be "like trying to sell iceboxes to Eskimos...
Terming the Schweiker choice "the political boner of the century," Harry Dent, the President's chief delegate hunter in the South, argued: "Reagan people are supposed to be purists, but this is a very impure act." Reagan's embracing of Schweiker, declared Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde, was like "a farmer selling his last cow to buy a milking machine...