Word: extends
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Powerful Tool. The issue took on partisan overtones when the House Banking and Currency Committee tried to write retroactivity of wage increases into law. While discussing the bill to extend Nixon's wage and price powers, the committee approved an amendment that would permit payment of raises agreed to before Aug. 15 unless they are "grossly disproportionate" to the national trend. The amendment was introduced by Democratic Representative Joseph Minish, a New Jersey A.F.L.-C.I.O. official for seven years before he won election to the House in 1962. It is far from certain that the amendment can pass Congress...
...grants, and takes backers of the Administration's bill off the hook by creating a presidential watchdog commission to oversee an expanded NCI. Scheduled to reach the floor of the House later this month, the bill is expected to pass. Some tough House-Senate bargaining is likely to extend into the politicking of 1972. The chances are good that some form of the legislation will be enacted before the presidential election and all factions will doubtless claim credit. The extra funds and facilities should accelerate many programs, stimulate new ones and buy more of the sophisticated laboratory equipment researchers...
...appears that we have now crossed that ominous threshold and are on the road toward a progressively and indefinitely controlled economy. How much further these restraints on our lives will extend and to what ends remains to be seen. I suspect we will be apprised as to what the plummeting arrow on the emblem portends much sooner than we think...
...representation in Peking to full ambassadorial level 20 years after granting recognition to Peking. Tanzania and Zambia naturally sided with the Chinese, who are building a $400 million railroad linking the two countries. Latin American delegations were enticed with offers of trade and support in their effort to extend their territorial waters to 200 miles. Said one delegate: "The message was that 'if you fellows don't vote with us, we may not be able to expand trade with...
...Kentucky, and to a lesser extent, New Jersey, indicated that conventional appeals to old fashioned Democratic issues can be effective, and while Frank Rizzo demonstrated that law and order still has punch, Henry Howell in Virginia and the corporation tax referendum in Florida indicate that "the social issue" may extend far beyond law-and-order. In which case we will all have to re-examine our pebbles...