Word: fattener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sporting an 8-7 record, Harvard's basketball team journeys to Cornell and Columbia this weekend in an effort to fatten its 1-2 Ivy mark against some unquestionably poor competition...
...rejection. "We are astounded by this arbitrary action of the commission," said Henry Ford II. Though G.M.'s second-quarter profits climbed 28% over the same period last year and Ford's zoomed 43%, both automobile companies maintain that the price hikes would not further fatten profits but only offset cost increases forced on them by federal...
With tough meets in February against Princeton, Penn, and Yale only weeks away, the Harvard swimming team will get another opportunity to fatten its record when it takes on Springfield at 8 p.m. tonight...
...Grayson's commission has moderated pricing policies in three basic industries: autos, steel and coal. The commission's basic rule is that prices may be increased only to reflect added costs, minus any gains in workers' productivity-and then only if the price boosts do not fatten profit margins. Grayson has been flexible in applying this standard. Last week he allowed U.S. Steel an average price increase of 3.6%, in return for a promise that the company would not try to raise prices again before Aug. 1. (Last week U.S. Steel raised some prices 7.7%, but said...
...rules until it knew what wage increases would be permitted in Phase II. At almost the last moment, the commission decided to let prices rise only enough to reflect actual increases in costs, minus any rises in workers' productivity-and then only if the price hikes do not fatten company profit margins. Some economists think that this tough-sounding rule will prove to be an administrative nightmare. Alan Greenspan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, fears that many firms that maintain only hazy running measures of their productivity and profit margins will have little idea when...