Word: dollar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the acronym for moral equivalent of war is MEOW.) Indeed, if the financial discomfiture was to be as minimal as the Administration was claiming at week's end, the essential changes for Americans would be ones of habit and life-style?but those could prove more painful than dollar losses...
People who heat their homes with oil would get back every dollar that the tax adds to their heating bills. Other revenues raised by the tax would be refunded to consumers in the same manner as the gasoline tax, through income tax credits and direct payments, but again the credits would not be geared to usage; people who used a great deal of oil would lose money, people who used little would gain...
...than seven-tenths of one percentage point to living costs between now and 1980. Automakers would be hurt, but not disastrously. Though sales of small models would climb under the plan, Eckstein sees a net sales drop of 300,000 U.S.-made cars a year and Detroit sales in dollar terms running about 4% a year below what they would otherwise be through...
...number of companies showed dramatic advances. B.F. Goodrich's earnings leaped 87%, largely because of strong tire sales. General Telephone & Electronics' net was up 53%, mainly because the rising value of the Canadian dollar made profits of its Canadian operation, when converted into U.S. dollars, take a big jump. American Airlines turned a $ 1.4 million profit for the quarter, v. an $8.8 million loss for the same period last year. It was the line's best first quarter in nine years, and it mirrored the recovery of the U.S. airline industry generally as higher fares, stable fuel...
...running time of five hours, ten minutes -a full two hours beyond the contractual limit. Producer Alberto Grimaldi has forcibly taken it out of Bertolucci's hands. The U.S. distributor, Paramount, is balking at releasing it. The dispute has turned into a three-cornered fusillade of multimillion-dollar lawsuits. No wonder Bertolucci has been suffering of late from a series of psychosomatic ills that he calls "the 1900 syndrome...