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Favorable congressional action on the windfall profits tax would strengthen Carter's new policy. As he said, "There is no single answer. We must produce more. We must conserve more. And we must join together in a great national effort to use American technology to give us energy security in the years ahead." Decontrol is a necessary first step to the creation of an effective energy policy, and the other steps proposed by the President can bring substantial additional progress...
Meanwhile, another shocker on prices provided further evidence that after just five months, the President's Stage II anti-inflation effort is flagging. In March wholesale prices zoomed 1%, or at a compounded, annual rate of 12.7%, the same as in February. Leading the price index was food, which jumped 1.2%, with particularly severe rises in beef and veal. So far this year, beef prices have increased at an annual rate of more than 100% and are expected to remain oppressively high for the rest of the year. The standard Administration forecast calls for inflation to moderate...
After the deadline passed, the Teamsters called selective strikes against 73 of the 500 companies involved in the negotiations. This was a union effort to flex some muscle but avoid provoking the White House into imposing the 80-day cooling-off period under the Taft-Hartley Act. To invoke the law, which would require the drivers to return to work, the President must show that a strike will endanger the nation's health or safety. The partial walkout also would have enabled the union to push for divide-and-conquer settlements with individual firms. To foil that move, trucking...
...intelligence, bringing together 114 sculptures done between 1912 and 1932 by 39 artists: French, Spanish, German, Hungarian, Russian, Italian and American. She has traced sculpture's passage from closed mass to open form with a precision of focus and a variety of little-known works that no earlier effort has matched. This may be the most important show of modernist sculpture in the past ten years...
...PACs usually confine themselves to soliciting campaign contributions from employees, ARCO spends about $750,000 annually giving political instruction to employees as well as retirees, shareholders, royalty owners, leaseholders and distributors. It encourages them all to pressure their legislators. In its latest annual report, ARCO notes, "In its continuing effort to heighten employee and shareholder political awareness, the Company has widened its Civic Action Program, which now has 45 local area committees operating in 13 states..." All told, the program maintains contact with 63,000 people. These figures uphold the contention that ARCO is a significant national political force...