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After nearly a month of Administration prodding and pleading, Bethlehem, the nation's second largest steelmaker, announced that it would scale back an anticipated 7% price increase set for July to a flat 3%. Moreover, the company pledged to forgo any additional price hikes this year if the President's anti-inflation strategy of voluntary cooperation from industry and labor begins to slow the alarming spiral in the cost of living...
...deep differences were evident from the moment Begin arrived. Fearful that the visitor might make some inflammatory remark on deplaning without Carter present for a rebuttal, the State Department had asked him to forgo any statement upon landing. He did so, striding silently past waiting microphones and reporters...
...have always skied for my own enjoyment, and that's the way it is today," insists Phil. Perhaps, but with the Olympics coming up, Phil will forgo his summer respite this year and submit to off-season training in South America and Europe. "I'm really hungry now," he confesses...
...Shoemaker has watched her ride hunters and jumpers. "She's got a better seat than I do," he says admiringly. He also admits that "she's a lot prettier on a horse than I am." But not as much in demand at the tracks. The couple will forgo a honeymoon until the current racing season is over...
...stock was held in Lady Bird's name, proved impossible to trace fully. The reporting on Teddy was far from protective; opinion polls show most Americans do not believe his story-and his chance of becoming President has been severely damaged. As for L.B.J., he was forced to forgo a run for re-election at least partly because of intense press criticism of his Viet Nam policies...