Word: fears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Administration experts fear that they may not be sure for another two months whether the economy is heading up or down. But well before then, Carter's voluntary wage and price guidelines will have faced some crucial tests. Foremost is the trucking industry's bargaining now under way with the Teamsters union, which is seeking pay raises as high as 38% over three years, far beyond those permitted under the guidelines. Unions generally cite rising corporate profits (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) as one reason to demand bigger raises. Alfred Kahn, the Administration's top inflation fighter, concedes some...
...street, left his office with $300,000 worth of stones. Three days later, his body was found bound and strangled in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. There have been no arrests in the case. The well-publicized incidents have made the merchants even more tight-lipped than usual. They fear that any talk with outsiders could lead only to greater vulnerability...
...women's protest, then, a short-lived eruption, a minor blip in the revolution? No. Many who protested against the chador respect Khomeini, are devout Muslims and believers in an Islamic state, and above all fear being separated from the revolution and divided among themselves (as they have been traditionally). But for them the anti-Shah revolution and the outbreak against the new regime's edicts proved an experience that, in the West, would be called consciousness raising. "We women don't yet know who we are," says Lily Mostafavi, a government worker. But, she adds...
...John Connally's first visit of the campaign included a 1978 appearance at Goffstown (pop. 2,272) that attracted precisely no one. Connally will try again, never fear, this time trailed, again never fear, by hordes of reporters, camera crews and Texas sidemen, all of whose expenditures for motel rooms, meals, booze and rental cars juice up the fragile New Hampshire economy each election year to the tune of an estimated $4 million. They will probably spend more than $1 million in the preprimary year...
...muscular vigilance was puzzling, especially after Hanoi announced that it was willing to negotiate with Peking once the Chinese had completely withdrawn their forces. Moreover, there was some reason to fear that if fighting resumed in the area it might involve Laos rather than Viet Nam directly...