Word: dollar
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...capita income has risen to third in the nation--when only the rate of increase has done so. (This trend had been set before Finch was elected, and in a state as poor as Mississippi, a large increase is very easy to achieve, but almost meaningless. In fact, the dollar gap between Mississippi and the nation has increased...
...OPEC scheduled an early April meeting to discuss raising the price of oil, which has remained frozen for months. Reason: to offset the decline in value of the dollars in which OPEC's 13 members are paid for their petroleum. Saudi Arabia, OPEC's linchpin, is still opposed to a price boost, but whether it can prevail is becoming less certain. Iraq and Kuwait are among the leading OPEC members who demand a rise in prices and perhaps even an end to the dollar's role as the sole currency in which world oil prices are quoted...
...Robert Strauss, President Carter's chief trade negotiator, warned that the dollar's slide could jeopardize American efforts to achieve deep slashes in tariffs and a reduction in nontariff barriers to trade in talks now going on in Geneva...
Farmers protest that they are not responsible for food inflation. Since the early 1950s, they have received only 40? to 45? of every dollar that the shopper spends for food. Last year farmers collected $56.5 billion for their products, but it cost an additional $59 billion for labor-packinghouse workers, store clerks, waiters, et al.-to get those products from the farm to the table at home or in restaurants. Operating expenses for food retailers have been rising particularly fast. One major chain, Supermarkets General (Pathmark), expects labor, energy and tax outlays to swell about 10% each. Yet supermarket managers...
Kosner: And you're avoiding the issue. We're two parts of the same company. There's a question of responsibility here. You're not some little hippie paper defying the Establishment. We're both part of a half-a-billion-dollar corporation that makes contracts and is expected to honor them. We signed up with the New York Times, and so did dozens of newspapers. We've all gone to a lot of expense to honor the release date together. Remember, the Times even agreed that Kay Graham could read an advance...