Word: firm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hanoi also claimed that it had firm evidence of Peking's long planning for the invasion. Newsmen based in the capital, taken on a guided tour of the front, were shown printed Vietnamese phrase books found on the bodies of dead Chinese soldiers. Among other things, the eight-page pamphlets contained instructions to be given Vietnamese prisoners ("You will be taken to a safe place and allowed to rest ... Don't worry. Your wound will be treated immediately...
...curb inflation, which is surging to scary levels. The January Consumer Price Index, released last week, rose at an annual rate of 11.4%. Leading the price parade was food, up at an 18.2% rate. Contends David Grove, a former IBM vice president who heads his own economic consulting firm: " To get inflation under control, everyone has to sacrifice. There has to be a willingness by the public to forgo tax relief, tolerate tighter money, and not put tremendous pressure on the Government to step up spending for pet programs." Adds Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president of Chicago's Harris...
...reducing the federal budget deficit from $37 billion this year to the $29 billion that Carter projects for the fiscal year beginning in October. The Board of Economists expects the deficit in fiscal 1980 to bulge to $45 billion. In fact, says Alan Greenspan, head of the economic consulting firm of Townsend-Greenspan, "Carter has a better chance of bringing in the budget below $30 billion this fiscal year than next." One reason: tax receipts this year will be up because the economy was much stronger than expected this winter and expenditures will be below expectations...
...tone utopia, but in reality Murphy's Law prevails. Computer breakdowns and mistakes in programming commonly cause problems. The software bugs that may linger for many months can invoke a state of perplexed ennui in even the most sanguine of computer phone users. Danray, a Texas-based communications firm that was acquired last year by Canada's Northern Telecom, installed a PBX system two months ago at AMF headquarters in White Plains, N. Y. Reports one AMF employee: "The new system has its problems. We have trouble with connections, and quite often calls don't get through...
After graduation he served in the Air Force and then went into business in Massachusetts. He has worked for a tool company, a reinforced paper firm, and a shoe manufacturer, and he ran a heating oil company before retiring to Florida last year with his wife...