Word: fighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increase of more than 30% in wages and fringe benefits over three years. That is well above the Carter Administration's wage-guideline limit of 7% a year. But the Council on Wage and Price Stability, by tortuously twisting the guideline rules, pronounced the agreement acceptable. Chief Inflation Fighter Alfred Kahn admitted that the Administration's official position verges on fantasy. Said he: "You can say with honesty that there has been bending of the standards...
Government efforts to keep a lid on prices are also failing. Many businessmen feel that some form of mandatory wage-price controls is inevitable, despite repeated protestations by the President, his chief inflation fighter Alfred Kahn and other Administration officials that no such move is contemplated. Thus corporations are pushing up prices earlier and higher than they ordinarily would as a hedge against being caught by controls "with their prices down." As a result, says COWPS Director Barry Bosworth, the Administration is tightening up on its price standards, which are becoming less and less voluntary...
...fear of invasion, and it is hard to separate the real paranoids from the merely cautious. A sergeant (Dan Aykroyd) steals a tank and starts a blackout by zapping the brightly lit Santa Claus decorations on Hollywood Boulevard. A crazy pilot (John Belushi) flies a P-40 fighter-bomber to search for enemy aircraft but succeeds only in creating panic below. A riot breaks out between native whites and Chicano zoot suiters, and General Joseph Stilwell-yes, the General Joseph Stilwell (Robert Stack)-is in charge of restoring order. Meantime, a periscope, looking suspiciously like the snout of a shark...
Lean and tall at 147-lbs., Simms, the man they called the Scorpion, baited the more stocky Ramos with stuff left leads and quick counter-punching jabs. Early in round two, Simms staggered his opponent repeatedly, but could but knock him out. The judges gave the local fighter a unanimous verdict by scores...
Harvard's Black Student Athletes Association sponsored the evening called "The Fight Against Leukemia Night." George Jackson '80, president of the association and organizer of the event, said last night. "The fans are seeing some of the top amateur fighter on the east coast and I think they're enjoying...